as I learning chinese, a manderin voice would be nice from ivox On 19 Aug 2009, at 18:59, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> > Furthermore, the high quality voices are so language specific that > it's virtually impossible to read anything but the language that the > voice is made for. So therefore, if i want to read something in > Swedish, i must use a swedish voice, or viseversa. This was not the > case with the high definition voices like Infovox Ingmar. That voice > is quite tollerant if you want to read english texts with it. Of > course, it becomes Swenglish but it's understandable. This will be > hard with Alex, because he's made for reading in English, if you see > what i mean. > /Krister > > > 19 aug 2009 kl. 18.37 skrev James & Nash: > >> 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, >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
