Hello, Thank you for explaining this cordially. Of course I know how the business world operates. I also know that with arrangements with a certain company, users can pay a fee to enable them to use a certain feature or voice. For example, the NVAccess team is working to permit the use of Eloquence in their program for a fee. So, based on the suggestion that the original poster made, MA can respond if they choose to by stating that "we're working on this with the voice company" or "We've tried but the voice company said no". Or maybe "Oh, that's a great idea!! We'll look into it". Either way, a voice manufacturer can't proffit if they limit themselves by only allowing their product to be used by one screen reader. If an individual wishes to purchase a voice, they should be allowed to do so, although I don't know what voice company MA uses or what their policy for this is.
Thanks. On 21.10.2011, Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > hi Nimer, > > in my respond i never mention that people are not willing to pay for the > vocalizer voice, and i never mention that people are asking > for free. i am telling the fact that the vocalizer voice is indeed not an > open source and therefore CF are paying some amount of > money for the vocalizer voice to nuance. this is the same situation as > freedomscientific and GW micro which also dont allow user to > use the eloquence voice to another screen reader too. > > if CF to make vocalizer as system voice, everyone will be using the built-in > vocalizer voice with another screen reader such as > talkback and spiel. if vocalizer is an open source, this is fine, but in > reality, it wasn't the case. remember that in a business > world, everyone is indeed selfish. > > > -- > > Allan (WKF) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nimer M. Jaber, ICł" <[email protected]> > To: "Mobile Accessibility Android Users List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 03:05 > Subject: Re: [MA] ma voice as default speech engine. > > > Uh Alan, thanks for the assholish response. The reason wasn't that > obvious if people asked about this. And I'm sure that users wouldn't > mind paying for the premium voice. Nobody said anything about it being > free. And seeing as the cost for MA is outrageously high (in my > opinion at any rate), you would think that the cost for this could be > absorbed. Anyway ... > > On 21.10.2011, jeff J Worthington <[email protected]> wrote: >> This would be good, but I have a request of codefactory and a question. It >> would be nice if one version of MA be in motible languages. This leeds me >> to >> my question. I was using the Svox voices then they updated. I have version >> 2.2 of android and I am now having problems with the voices delaying in >> the >> reading and stopping unexpectedly and not saying anything for a little >> while >> or until after I turn the phone off and back on. Is it the phone (mytouch >> 3g) or the version of android with the updated version of svox? Does >> anyone >> else have this problem? I can't even contact svox as their web sight >> doesn't >> have a contact page. Any help would be greatly appriciated. >> Jeff >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ma_mailing mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://list.codefactory.cat/mailman/listinfo/codefactory.cat.ma_mailing >> > > > -- > Nimer M. Jaber > > The message above is intended for the recipient to whom it was sent. > If you believe that you are not the intended recipient, please notify > me via reply email and destroy all copies of this email. 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Registered Linux User 529141. http://counter.li.org/ Vinux testing and documentation coordinator To get more information about a free and accessible operating system, please click here: http://www.vinuxproject.org To find out about a free and versatile screen reader for windows XP and above, please click here: http://www.nvda-project.org Check out my blog related to technology by clicking here: http://nimertech.blogspot.com Phone: (720) (251-4530) Please reply to this email to contact me. _______________________________________________ ma_mailing mailing list [email protected] http://list.codefactory.cat/mailman/listinfo/codefactory.cat.ma_mailing
