I very much agree. For me its no problem because I use braille anyway and
probbably might use english mac os x (although I am not sure if that is
possible if I have my location as the netherlands) anyway, if you want to
switch to the mac imho you really have to be able to read English rather well
But, indeed for non-native english speakers who have no braille display this
might really be a problem. I know a lot of Dutch blind people heavily rely on
speech for example even htough it is not that difficult to get braille displays
here.
I think it would be a good idea to also mention that windows AND linux have
free screenreaders that have multiple language voices, I thought something like
that would be in os x by now, i know thae majority of people probbably speak
English but isnt there also a big market in europe and asia for example?
Again for me it is not that much of a big deal but I think for a lot of other
people who are potential buyers it might be.
Greetings, Anouk,
----- Original Message -----
From: James & Nash
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: voices on os x
This makes things very difficult for those people who may not have enough
competency in English to install the OS and use it until they can buy the
InfoVox voices. Having Alex read French or any other foreign language with an
English voice is not acceptable.
Let's hope that they will fix this issue in the near future. Perhaps I'll
point out to them that users of Orca in Linux and NVDA in Windows have speech
with E Speak which gives users about 50 voices. Braille access is also given
through BRLTTY.
Hopefully though, voices for other languages will be added in some future
update.
Take care
James
----- Original Message -----
From: Søren Jensen
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: voices on os x
I totally agree. It's really odd that Apple doesn't put these voices in
Snowleopard when they already are on the Iphones and the Ipod shuffle. Sounds
like they didn't know they exist when they say it's too late to put them in
Snowleopard. If they really wanna put these voices in Snowleopard, they could
easily make a Voiceover update like the update for the Braille displays last
year... Sounds like they don't wanna put these voices in snowleopard... :(
Best regards:
Søren Jensen
Mail & MSN:
[email protected]
Website:
http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/
On 19/08/2009, at 17.26, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Will,
On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:40 PM, william lomas wrote:
they told me is was a bit late now for snowleopard
That's a bit disingenuous of them! I've been bellyaching to them about
this for as long as we've had VoiceOver. I wouldn't hold my breath if I were
you.
Cheers,
Anne
On 19 Aug 2009, at 13:34, James & Nash wrote:
I do not understand why they simply do not include them with Snow
Leopard as they are already there in the IPhone.
Take care
----- Original Message -----
From: william lomas
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: voices on os x
no there isn't. apple have said they would possibly include the
ones in the i phone in the future
On 19 Aug 2009, at 13:24, a radix wrote:
Hello, I know voicover will come with alex and some other voices,
but will there be standard other language ones? As you know I dont use voices a
lot myself but I am going to post about my new mac on dutch mailing lists and I
am pretty sure this question will come up by a lot of people because most ppl
use mainly speech.
Greetings, Anouk,
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