Ah, licensing issues, I should have thought of that. Still, if that's the case, how is it that they can be included on the iphone?
Well, thanks for the info. I do hope this changes soon, it seems very unfair. Cheers, Donna On Nov 15, 2009, at 2:22 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
