Hi Dane,
Just a correction. I paid €75 for my license, which is about $100 I'd
guess. It used to say on the site that some of it is donated, but I
don't remember how much.
Aside from that, the voices work very well. I also find the
auto-language switching a very good feature, especially when I actually
need to use multi-lingual documents.
Regards,
Nicolai
Den 24-01-2013 13:27, Dane Trethowan skrev:
Hi Everyone and - wherever you are - I trust you're comfortable whatever the weather
is doing in your part of the world <smile>.
Had an interesting discussion with someone earlier on today regarding the
Vocaliser voices and what Screen Reading software will work with them.
Here's a summary of what I know and others may wish to add comments or correct
me if appropriate.
A licence can be purchased to unlock the Vocaliser voices with NVDA for $75.00,
15% of this charge goes to the developers of NVDA as a donation - NVDA is a
Free open source Screen Reading package -.
A licence can be purchased to unlock Vocaliser voices for Window-Eyes at a cost
of $99.00.
Vocaliser voices can be used with JFW, download for free from the Freedom
Scientific web site.
So given all these facts we've been tossing around several questions and trying
to come up with some logical answers.
How is it that a licence for Vocaliser and NVDA is only $75.00 and yet for
Window-Eyes its $99.00? Why are GW Micro asking people to pay for a licence
when Freedom Scientific include all that stuff in the purchase price?
Yep, i take the point that Window-eyes is somewhat cheaper to buy than is JAWS however!
when it comes to flexibility and available options? Well perhaps one can argue that the
extra price is well worth paying and its all about perception isn't it, I mean you get
these extra voices for "Free!" so to speak when you buy JAWS where its an extra
outlay to have these voices for Window-Eyes and marketing these days has a lot to do with
perception.
And finally, perhaps I'm writing to the wrong list but all the Screen Readers
mentioned here are - along with the Vocaliser voices - are indeed pieces of Windows
software, hence my reasoning <smile>.
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Dane Trethowan
Skype: grtdane12
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