For some reason, nuance has chosen not to sell their voices on the android market the way loquendo and svox do, I think that's a bad decision on their part, if they made it available that way, more end users would probably purchaseit. Ivona also makes their voices available through the market. On Oct 21, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Allan 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, IC³" <[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. Action taken > as a result of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient > may result in civil or criminal action. I have checked all files on my > machine for security threats. However, I will not be held responsible > for any damage caused to your machine as a result of any instructions > or attachments provided by me. Security of your machine is up to you. > Thanks, and if you don't feel that you are able to comply with these > instructions, please notify me via reply email and destroy all copies > of this email from your computer. > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > ma_mailing mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.codefactory.cat/mailman/listinfo/codefactory.cat.ma_mailing _______________________________________________ ma_mailing mailing list [email protected] http://list.codefactory.cat/mailman/listinfo/codefactory.cat.ma_mailing
