I just called Origin Instruments and ordered. The email should be here some time this afternoon. The woman Cathy who took my order was very nice and helpful. Overall, I had a wonderful experience with them.
On 27/03/2009, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tiffanitsa, > > I sent you a reply off-list yesterday as soon as I read your post but > I'll post again here. The problem for U.S. users is that our > distribution agent, Origin Instruments, only puts up voices for a few > languages on their web site and tells you to email them if you want to > purchase others. Apparently there's just not much market in the U.S. > for people who want voices in languages other than English or Spanish, > so the only voices that are on their downloads pages are (U.S. and > British) English, (Castilian and U.S.) Spanish, and (Gallic and > Canadian) French. Plus, they added Russian (but I think only because > I purchased that voice). I actually called in, and also spoke with > the Tech Support person, Cathy Kingeter, who generated my license. > > Here's the contact information: > > Origin Instruments Corporation > 854 Greenview Drive > Grand Prairie, Texas 75050-2438 > USA > > Voice: 972-606-8740 > FAX: 972-606-8741 > email: [email protected] > > And appended below is the part of my query to David Niemeijer about > how to get the new voices; he just says to drop them an email. And > you don't get a Kagi link on the web pages for the U.S. purchase, > though it appears for Assistiveware purchases elsewhere. The problem > is not the screen access -- they just don't have a full list of the > Infovox iVox voices up anywhere on their purchase pages. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > >> From: David Niemeijer <[email protected]> >> Date: February 25, 2009 12:29:20 AM HST >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: New voices for Italian, British, Russian, Greek and >> Norwegian >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> >> >> Hi Esther, >> >> On Feb 24, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Esther wrote: >>>> You can purchase online. >>> OK, I assume this goes through Origin Instruments again. They >>> usually >>> don't put up the full range of language packages on their web page, >>> but they say we can order any of the Assistiveware products. >> >> That's correct. Just drop them an email and they should be able to >> sell you Greek. >> > On Mar 27, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Tiffany D wrote: > >> >> I went on the XP machine using Internet Explorer and still couldn't do >> it. I didn't see any image with kagi. I used an old version of JFW >> and also NVDA. I'm not sure if System Access to Go or hal can handle >> it but I'm getting very frustrated. This is ridiculous. >> >> On 26/03/2009, Simon Cavendish <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Tiffanitsa, >>> >>> I have today purchased the Greek voice but I had to do so using >>> Windows and Mozilla. I have already spoken on this list about the >>> difficulties buying from assistiveware website using voicoever. It >>> baffles me that it continues to be the case. If you still have >>> Windows >>> on your machine, you might try to purchase he Greek voice using >>> internet explorer. The website handling the buying of assistiveware >>> is >>> Kagi. When in Windows, look for the image which contains the word >>> Kagi. It's not very clear. Again, I am so surprised that assitiveware >>> purchasing process is so clumsy. >>> >>> Good luck. >>> >>> Simon >>> On 26 Mar 2009, at 21:52, Tiffany D wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Today, I went into the Infovox IVox program and saw that my trial >>>> has >>>> expired. It's still speaking so I'm not sure if, when I restart my >>>> computer, it will stop working or what. Anyway, I went to the >>>> Assistiveware.com online store to purchase it and when I went to the >>>> page for the program it only offered me a few languages. So how >>>> do I >>>> order the Dimitris voice for Greek if it's not on there? Thanks. >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
