I am not sure, but I'd guess that they were licensed to work on a mobile cellular platform.
TC James On 15 Nov 2009, at 19:43, Donna Goodin wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
