Hello Justin, Thanks a bunch for that fine post regarding Spanish in Snow-Leopard. I'm sure that there are a number of people on the list who might be interested. I also know of a few people who might purchase a Mac if Spanish is included. Again, thanks.
Dan [email protected] On Mar 14, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > > Hi all > > The article in English > > There will be voices in Spanish for mac os x snowleopard > > The next version of the apple operating system, known as snowleopard, > will include some very interesting new accessibility features, > particularly for blind users. > > in this new version, known as Mac OS X 10.6 new Spanish voices will be > included. With this new development, one of the most important > berriers to this OS which existed for non-english speakers wil be > eliminated, the absence of free spanish speaking voices. > > It's still not known which voices will be used in this next release of > the macintosh operating system, but even if they have the same quality > as Alex, the free english speaking voice incorperated in Mac OS X > Leopard, the voice will possess a very interesting balance between > quality of pronunciation and agility. > > On top of incorperating these voices in Spanish, Snowleopard will > widen its support of refreshable braille displays, a better > personalization process for voiceover, the screenreader for mac OS X, > a better support for universal system access, and improvements in the > zoom performance for the screen magnification. > > Let's hope that this new version of the apple operating system isn't > delayed for to long, even though rumor has it that it won't come out > on the market until the last three months of the year, owing to some > errors found in the most recent developer beta. > > > > > Personally as a native english speaker I would still regard this as > being something that should interest me and others who might have > spanish speaking friends, or who might be learning spanish. It's just > useful for everyone to know what is available. So I submit here a > rendering of the blog post in english. I have taken some liberty in > places, not translating exactly as it is written to better capture the > meaning, and have been more exact in other places. I saw at least one > severe spanish error which may have spanish readers laughing with > youthful abandon; it caused me to have a bit of uncertainty in places > of the article's meaning but I think its all here and the idea is > conveyed. > > > > "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already > tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic > strip. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
