Intellectual property issues are a pain. I understand that the artist or author needs to be compensated for their work, but I'm really tired of the extremes that companies go to. It's ridiculous that anyone could consider TTS voices as an actual audio book. As someone who produces actual audio books, I'm here to say that it's not as simple as sticking someone in a booth and making them read the text. There is a certain level of artistry and performance that goes into them. <sigh>
Friendly, Chris On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: > You know, NVDA is one of the screen readers that will work with the Kindle > App for PC and enable TTS on all Kinle books. Theoretically, anybody could > download and use NVDA since it is open source and free, thus giving the > masses access to TTS on the PC Kindle App. I bet most sighted people are not > going to give a hoot, however, just like they wouldn't care if TTS was > enabled on their Mac if Voice Over was turned on. Just something to think > about. > On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > >> If you go to the page on amazon for the accessible Kindle app, you'll see >> that they require that one have a screen reader installed to use the tts >> feature. that's why they can let us have access to all the books, even those >> that are tts disabled on the Kindle hardware. Sighted people generally don't >> have screen readers installed, but with Macs and I-devices, that's not the >> case. I hope I am proven wrong and amazon actually does make the thing >> vo-compatible, but I bet they don't do anything for I-devices, and they'll >> have to come up with a way to ensure that only screen reader users can >> access the tts on the Mac. How do you do that when VO is on all Macs? >> >> Mary >> Mary Otten >> [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> 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.
