I would agree with this assessment. Unfortunately, the IPhone, maybe more so for us, is still a mobile device and is not in every respect a computer replacement. Of course that very much depends on the task and to some degree how proficient you are at that task. For e-mail it is more convenient and even faster to just check mail on the IPhone, but the IPhone TTS is seriously lacking in my opinion. This is assuming using the HQ voice Jill US English. Her pronounciations are terrible. She stumbles over words when reading continuously and for any real amount of reading a lot of things the IPhone TTS is just a mess. That's why I want a braille display. I know there is the compact voice, but she is muffled and her pronounciations are not really much better or worse over all in my opinion when you average it all out. Sadly the TTS quality is what keeps me from doing any reading of long passages on my IPhone.
On 6/8/12, Sieghard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Craig, > > You might get different views on this, but as far as I am concerned, > there is simply no question that being productive and efficient > browsing the web, finding information on web pages, filling out web > forms and so on is much easier and faster on a Windows PC with Jaws > or, for those who are very good and used to Window Eyes, maybe with > that screenreader. I can only speak for Jaws having been a PC user > with Jaws for 23 years which of course was when there really wasn't > any internet yet. I consider myself to be fairly efficient with my > iPhone as well and have had it for almost 2 years, but I am quite > confident I could do things a lot faster on my PC with Windows 7, IE 9 > and Jaws 13 than anybody could on an iPhone with a bluetooth keyboard. > I also can't speak for how much better this would be on a Mac with > Safari and Voiceover, but any friends I have who are Mac and Voiceover > users I can mostly leave in the dust when it comes to doing just about > anything on the computer. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPhone 4S, > email works very well and is pretty good, but when it comes to typing > text fast, reviewing it, editing it by using copy, cut and paste and > all that, maybe copying text from a website into an email I am > composing where I have to jump back and forth and all that, doing it > on an iPhone doesn't even come close to how fast I can do this on the > PC. > > I am probably ticking off some hardcore iOS and Mac fans with this, > but that is just my observation and I do have a few friends who have > been using a Mac with Voiceover for some years and never really used a > PC much and I am sometimes surprised about how long it takes them to > do something fairly basic like moving a file from one folder to > another, finding an email or responding to an instant message I sent > them in Skype, even hanging up a Skype call seems to be not very > straight forward because apparently unless you install some sort of > script there are no keyboard shortcuts in the Skype version for the > Mac like Alt+PageUp to answer a call or Alt+PageDown to hang up. But > on the other hand it is certainly not a really painful experience if > you have to do something online and you happen to just have your > iPhone handy, when I had my Windows Mobile 6.1 phone with MobileSpeak > doing anything online was not pretty. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
