Hello Chris and all I'm not so sure that a "VoiceOver-Like" description is quite accurate. :) The two systems are inherently different and although it's true that VoiceOver "Can", and that's the operative word here, "Can", as opposed to "Does" use language-specific voices, the actual experience of VoiceOver and NVDA are really quite different. That said, I certainly don't mean to in any way belittle or pour cold water on what the people developing either these new drivers or NVDA itself are doing. Put simply, they are doing a wonderful job and it's absolutely fantastic that, after all these years of being constantly ripped off by the larger developers who seem to be able to name their prices even now, the average vision-impaired user finally has the option of acquiring access to their computer systems at a very reasonable price. After all, what could be more reasonable than nothing? OK, you need to buy these voices. Apple has absorbed the cost of the voices in its operating systems for desktop, notebook and mobile devices. But the price asked by the developers of this product is hardly unreasonable, at less than 10% of the purchase price of a Jaws Pro or Window-Eyes Professional license.
As somebody who, I'm sorry to say, is still regarded as an outsider by some people based on the feedback I occasionally receive, I am very happy that those of you who have the extreme misfortune to have been deprived of the benefits of vision, either in full or in part, are finally being offered what could potentially prove to be a lifeline without the extortionate prices. After all, it's perfectly possible for people like me to buy a monitor of excellent quality for significantly less than that of a screen-reader in the traditional sense and I don't have to change monitors with each change of operating system or version. So why should those of you who are already victims of happenstance be penalised still further? Yes, I appreciate that developers have to eat as well. But they all seem to think that agencies or charitable organisations will be purchasing their products on behalf of individuals and, therefore, they can virtually charge what they like. That often isn't the case. This is one subject which frequently irritates me and I am very happy to see that this company is pricing their product so reasonably. So, more power to those working on NVDA and any other low-priced solutions. Well done, also, to Apple for what they are doing. But it is nice to see that Apple isn't the only alternative. I also applaud those producing reasonably priced accessibility tools for platforms such as Android which, undoubtedly, will eventually come to rival Apple's mobile products. That can only be a good thing for everybody. Anyway; I'd better stop babbling now as we have a busy day ahead. Lynne On 21 Jun 2012, at 20:37, chris hallsworth <[email protected]> wrote: Hello all if you want a VoiceOver like experience in terms of synthesizers for NVDA here is the link to the announcement posted on the NVDA website. ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
