I emailed erik damery CEO of vfo with the following suggestions.
in order to make a low cost or free jaws, do the following.
1. rip out all nuance stuff. and for the free jaws, support and all
nuance stuff has to be paid or purchased separately if you want it.
2. replace nuance eloquence with speech player and espeak. replace
vocalizer with the free speechHub and microsoft speech platform voices.
3. rip out omniPage for OCR and replace it with the free tesseract OCR
or a free google OCR option.
4. free or low-cost jaws should be download only. or pay $20 for a dvd.
5. no jaws network install unless you buy the $20 dvd.
6. free jaws is authorized with a generic serial number.
7. all free jaws or low cost jaws serial numbers are the same maybe
serial=freejaws or something like that.
I wrote to vfo at least two times about this. I hope they are listening,
because using illegal keys made by middle eastern folks is sort of
annoying and I would much rather have a free or very very low cost jaws
for home use minus all the nuance stuff, but have a basic jaws tandom in
there so us freeJaws users can remote and help each other out.
Personally I cannot wait for the day to say goodbye to the foreign-made
key code. because i will never have the income to go to conventions to
buy jaws. besides using espeak would let jaws read the irish gaelic and
some other rare languages that eloquence and even nuance vocalizer does
not support. perhaps with any luck the big announcement coming in a few
months, will finally allow me to say goodbye to the
foreign-made-key-codes forever. i hope. i hope erik damery CEO of vfo is
listening. give us free or very very low-cost jaws for those who cannot
afford to buy full jaws with its nuance bells and whistles!
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