hi, i dunno, of course the danish voice is not perfect, but it is useable, and i gotta say the only thing that frustrates me is this, if you drive on the highway you can hardly hear the phone when you use the gps. As for hebrew voices could there be copyright things that they are not telling us about?
On 9/29/13, Terje Strømberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Then we have the Norwegian, Israel and Danish voices and maybe a couple > more. Together the market grows. From the Apple side there should be an > conscience share too, not only a stock share They own Voice Over. We have > paid for the hardware. I believe Apple will fix this after some pressure if > many enough countries users and organizations make them pay attention to > this problem. > > Take care > > 25. sep. 2013 kl. 18:04 skrev Annie Skov Nielsen > <[email protected]>: > >> Hi. >> >> It is a disaster too in danish. Nobody understands the new voice. I mean >> that it is a catastrophe that voices are developing into something worse. >> >> Best regards Annie. >> Den Sep 25, 2013 kl. 12:34 PM skrev Rafi Cohen <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hi everyone. I could be happy that the new Vocalizer Expressive is >>> integrated in IOS7 but instead I am mostly frustrated. >>> I'm a blind software developer from Israel using both Mac and Iphone. >>> During the last months there were strong rumors that Apple will add a >>> Hebrew TTS to IOS7 and Mavericks. Yes I know, even a strong rumor is just >>> a rumor. But I also know that Hebrew TTS _is_ included in Vocalizer >>> Expressive, bot for reasons I really don't know and understand, Apple >>> decided to exclude it out and did not integrate Hebrew TTS in IOS7 and so >>> far it is not included in the Beta versions of Mavericks too. >>> Most unfortunately, nobody in the Accessibility group of Apple gives us >>> even a clue why they had to take it out. After all, we did not ask Apple >>> to invent the wheel. Hebrew TTS is part of Vocalizer Expressive, but >>> still was excluded from IOS7. >>> I, for myself can manage well with English but there are hundreds of >>> blind people who don't know English and were waiting impatiently for the >>> Hebrew support on IOS7 to buy iphones and now they are left out with much >>> frustration. >>> Yes, the Israeli blindness market is small and Apple still has >>> significant accessibility advantages over Android, but if that Hebrew TTS >>> will be integrated in Android before IOS, Apple will probably loose that >>> market. >>> I love Apple products but I'm most unhappy with their behavior towards >>> Hebrew support and I still hope somebody will give a comprehensive answer >>> to this issue. >>> Thanks, Rafi. >>> >>> From: >>> [email protected][mailto:[email protected]] >>> On Behalf Of BBS >>> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:14 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Vocalizer Expressive, Was Re: iOS 7, the worse update for >>> norwegians using VoiceOver >>> >>> Hi everyone. I've been meaning to send this out to you guys but I was >>> catching up on around 85 emails so here goes. I have an explanation of >>> why the old Norweigion voice that people are used to is no longer used. I >>> actually read this on the Viphone list and I wanted to inform you as >>> well. The reason why that voice is no longer in the iPhone is because >>> Nuance has stopped supporting the Vocalizer Automotive version 5.5 >>> engine, which was present in iOS6 and I think is present in OS X Mountain >>> Lion. Because of this, Apple is now using Nuance's new TTS engine, >>> Vocalizer Expressive. This new version of Vocalizer has new voices, and >>> as some of you that are using the Australian Karen voice may notice, she >>> sounds way better in this version. So for people that want the old voices >>> back, it won't happen because like I said, Vocalizer Automotive 5.5 is no >>> longer supported by Nuance. 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