Just wondering why was it decided to drop the human reading the manual. Whoever the human was who did it in the past did a great job!
-----Original Message----- From: Aaron Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:34 AM To: dennis Cc: gw micro Subject: Re: manual Dennis, Beginning with Window-Eyes 7.0, we will no longer be providing an audio recording of the manual. At least not an audio recording by one of us. We will, however, be providing a DAISY version of the manual, both text only, and audio. The voice used to record the audio version of the DAISY manual is Microsoft Anna, the same voice that ships with Windows Vista. We contemplated using a more realistic voice, but, honestly, the license cost for these other voices is substantial, and would most likely increase the cost of Window-Eyes. It just isn't worth it in our opinion. If resources become more abundant in the future, we may switch to a DAISY version using human speech, but for now we're going with Miss Anna. I've had several users test this version of the DAISY manual privately, and there is a consensus that the speech is acceptable. It's not amazing, but it works. Because the audio version of the DAISY manual uses MP3 files, we will also provide a playlist that will allow access to the audio files only for those people without some sort of DAISY player. So to answer your question directly, there will be an MP3 version of the manual, but not recorded by a human. All together, there will be six versions of the Window-Eyes manual available: CHM (Windows Help), Text (both individual sections and a single file), DAISY (both text-only and audio), and HTML (web based). We feel this combination of file formats will provide something for everyone. One final note: the Window-Eyes Scripting Manual will remain in CHM only. It is a reference for scripters, and doesn't make much sense to exist in many other formats. I hope that answers your question. Aaron dennis wrote: > do you have a mp3 file of the manual? > > dennis > msn [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and > your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending > your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search > form at the bottom of the page. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body > of the message. -- To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW Micro Technical Support Team. Aaron Smith GW Micro Phone: 260/489-3671 Fax: 260/489-2608 WWW: http://www.gwmicro.com FTP: ftp://ftp.gwmicro.com Technical Support & Web Development If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
