Hi, i take Samantha over trinoids, boing, bad news and the other unnecessary stuff any day. /Krister
16 okt 2010 kl. 17.30 skrev Carolyn Haas: > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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