will neo speech be coming to window eyes?
On 12/18/2015 1:03 PM, Jeremy Curry via Talk wrote:
Hi Reeva,
I am catching up on some of my email today and I wanted to respond to your question about
older synthesizers and ZoomText Fusion. There are several reasons that we did not
include older synthesizers, such as DecTalk Access32. However, at the top of the list is
that many of the older synthesizers do not allow for speaking and highlighting of text
simultaneously. You noted that the price was worth it for "speech and tracking
focus alone." This was one of the main feature requests we heard for ZoomText
Fusion. That is, users wanted to see everything that they hear. If we were to include
older synthesizers, the user experience would vary from synthesizer to synthesizer, and
most users would think that Fusion would not work when, in reality, it is because the
synthesizers are old and no longer being developed. Thus, we made the decision to
include the latest synthesizers that do support this technology. Additionally, a very
high percentage of ZoomText Fusion users want a
h
uman-sounding synthesizer. Thus, if we included DecTalk or Eloquence, there
are not only very few users who want it, but it would not work with tracking
focus, and the cost of the product would likely need to be higher. A similar
issue exists with the older Vocalizer (that is, NON-expressive) voices. The
tracking would not work and the price of the product would likely need to be
higher. This would give the impression that ZoomText Fusion did not work as
advertised and raise the cost at the same time. I hope this helps clarify why
we selected to include Neospeech and Vocalizer Expressive, as these
synthesizers are able to track everything that is spoken. In fact, we did a
ton of work under the hood to ensure that this works extremely well with these
synthesizers and ZoomText Fusion.
I hope you are enjoying the ZoomText Fusion trial!
What are some of the features you like best about it?
Merry Christmas!
Jeremy
Jeremy Curry
Director of Product Management
Ai Squared, Inc.
Phone: (802) 362-3612
Email: jcu...@aisquared.com
Web: www.aisquared.com
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From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+jcurry=aisquared....@lists.window-eyes.com] On
Behalf Of Reeva Webb via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 8:53 PM
To: Window-Eyes Discussion List; Loy
Subject: Re: Window Eyes and ZoomText or Fusion?
I have been using we and zt together for the past year and a half. I'm avout 2
and a half weeks into my fusion trial and i'm making plans to pay the $400 to
upgrade. It's basically we and zt finally working good together. It's worth it
just for speech and focus actually tracking alone.
Keep in mind this is new software the downsides i'm about to list may change with updates. The biggest one in my opinion is voices if you are a dectalk or eloquence fan you'll have to get those voices from a 3rd party as they do not come with fusion and the versions on the website for sale for we for office will not work with fusion. If like me you bought/want vocalizer classic voices like jill as i bought her for we for office at this time you're outta luck. You get vocalizer expressive tom, ava, samantha and allison and neospeech kate and paul. Ai2 people if y'all read this PLEASE PLEASE make the we for office voices available for purchase on the gw site work with fusion. I know some of this is up to the tts company that licenses the voices to y'all but y'all are gonna have people like me coming over from using we and zt as seperate products together who are gonna want dectalk and eloquence or in my case i bought vocalizer classic for jill for we for office nuance got
ri
d of her when they came out with vocalizer expressive. I don't think it's too
much to ask for people who bought voices for we for office or people coming
over from the retail version of we to get to use the voices we paid for already
with fusion.
At this time the chrome web browser is not supported by fusion. The last
downside is if you use the old zt keyboard, the one with the circle buttons on
top. You're gonna have to buy the new zt keyboard the old version does not
work with fusion. I highly suggest downloading the 60 day trial to see if you
like it. It's easy to get used to as there's a we keybord layout and you can
use all the apps from app central.
Reeva
On Dec 8, 2015 5:36 PM, "Loy via Talk" <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote:
Any opinions on the ZoomText Fusion versus Window Eyes and ZoomText as
separate programs. I am trying to decide on upgrading to Fusion for
$99 or purchase the ZoomText upgrade for Windows 10 for $49. I
primarily use Window Eyes and use ZoomText when I am doing my banking and
Quicken.
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