Hi Donna, I too find it surprising - especially as Apple is based in California where I believe Spanish and some of the Chinese and Japanese languages are spoken widely. I did point this out to Apple and asked them if they would consider including the IPhone voices in a future release, even though the InfoVox voices are fantastic. However, Apple told me that because the voices were not Apple's, that they could not be licensed to the Mac OS.
HTH TC James On 15 Nov 2009, at 19:06, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > thanks for responding. That's really too bad, and honestly, I'm a bit > surprised. And i agree, it would seem like if the iphone could > include localized languages and voices, so could the Mac. I hope that > soon VO does include either other languages or a localized version, so > that all of you can enjoy the same out-of-the-box access that we do. > Cheers, > Donna > On Nov 15, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Jonathan Chacón wrote: > >> >> hello, >> >> I use MacOS in Spanish. I had to buy Spanish voice for voiceOver >> from Infovox. >> >> I hoped Apple published Snow Leopard with the same voices in iPhone. >> >> iPhone has voices for 21 languages. >> >> >> Regards >> Jonathan Chacón >> >> El 15/11/2009, a las 19:47, Donna Goodin escribió: >> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have a question for those of you in countries where English is not >>> spoken. When you all purchase a Mac, what language do you get for >>> VO, >>> i.e. do localized versions of VO come with voices other than English >>> as the default? Do users there who don't speak English have to >>> purchase voices in their native languages in order to use the Mac? >>> Thanks, >>> Donna >>> >>>> >> >> >>> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
