Eric: On the subject of voiceover voicing, how come they only give breathing capability to Alex? Also, I wonder why the other voices they have seem so weak by comparison? Finally, in defense of Samaantha, I like her voice. it seems to me to be the strongest option besides Alex; at least on the iPhone. On the mac, if she's there under another name, she's not as strong. As a hearing impaired person, I've found the voicing on the iPad the easiest of all of the Apple voices to understand. But, that's just me. I'm interested in other people's thoughts on this.
Thanks Carolyn Haas [email protected] On Oct 16, 2010, at 6:33 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > I'd like to see better html5 support. It's working more or less, but it > could be better. Improved calendar and garage band accessibility. and a > female voice just so as I could change it up once in a while. If they > outsource voices from nuance I'm going to scream. There's no reason to buy > aweful when we have acapela which is far better. If they would licence > acapela I'd be right there, but please please please save me from samantha. > > Grade two braille input is a must. I also want the magnification to go up to > 10 times without pixalating. The magnification stuff has got to improve to a > point where it's on a par with the rest of voiceover. > > Best, > > Erik Burggraaf > User support consultant, > One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in person, > 1-888-255-5194 > http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2010-10-15, at 1:43 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > >> Hi, >> I would really love to see other voices in other languages and that they >> ditched those trinoids, good news, bad news, boing and other nonsence voices >> that belonged in the days when they didn't really know what to do with >> synthetic speech, because they hadn't a screen reader then. Nowadays, there >> is Voiceover so then other voices in other languages are more appropriate, >> especially since the screen reader itself is actually localized into other >> languages than english. >> Other than that, i would love to see a better translation to Swedish of >> Voiceover and the feature that the old Outspoken had, namely theability to >> know where the cursor was, by hearing a beep when you spell a word, so that >> if you had the word "browser" for example and you are in the middle of the >> word, just between the "w" and "s", you could hear "b r o w beep s e r" and >> if you then went one step to the right with the cursor, it'd go "b r o w s >> beep e r" and so on. >> Permanent hot spots savable on a per application basis would also be nice. >> And i totally agree with more accessibility of the ILife suite would be >> wonderful. >> /Krister >> >> 15 okt 2010 kl. 19.25 skrev Daniel Rowe: >> >>> Hi all. >>> >>> As you might be aware, apple are holding a "Back To The Mac" event next >>> Wednesday at 10 eastern in Cupertino, California. There are rumours of >>> possible upgrades to the MacBook Air and also the unveiling of MAC OS X >>> 10.7. >>> So, what would you like to see included in next version of the OS, either >>> generally or VoiceOver specific? >>> >>> Personally, I'd like to see a female voice that is as good as Alex, and to >>> have voices in other languages even if it meant licensing them from nuance >>> as they have done in iOS. >>> Accessibility improvements to garage band would be welcome, as well as >>> making iWeb accessible. >>> The last major thing I can think of is to finally fix the issue of VO >>> randomly resetting itself. >>> >>> I'm sure they'll come up with a load of things I haven't even thought of. >>> So what do you all think? >>> >>> Dannie >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
