There are currently no plans to do this. Thanks,
Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Singing Sparrow [mailto:sunsh...@abe.midco.net] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 2:24 PM To: Jeremy Curry; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: Window Eyes and ZoomText or Fusion? 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 > > > > -----Original Message----- > 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the >> author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >> >> For membership options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/jadedan >> g >> elpromises%40gmail.com >> . >> For subscription options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> List archives can be found at >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/jcurry%40aisquared.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/sunshine%40abe.midco.net. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. 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