On May 27, 2006, at 9:12 AM, will wrote:
hello to all you mac blind users,
I am considering buying a Mac book laptop and using voice over
I really, really want a Macbook! :-) Really!
i do have a few queeries
1. As I am a windows user but am beeing converted with audio demos
of voice over, i want to know is it easy to get started?
YES!!!! If for some reason you don't get the startup thing that talks
you through getting started with VO, it really is easy. Fact is, I
bought this G3/500 MHz iBook last year along witha shiny new copy of
Tiger and installed it completely independently. In order to actually
get real work done, you need only a few commands: navigation commands
(VO keys+arrows), select an item (VO keys+spacebar), click the mouse
(when the other doesn't work--VO keys+shift+spacebar), interact (to
use lists, HTML content, and the like--VO keys+shift+down arrow and
VO keys+shift+up arrow to stop interacting). If you learn just a
couple more, you can really gtet going, and it really is that easy.
Oh yes, and VO keys+F8 to customize how it behaves. While you'll find
a complete list of commands in the help, as well as at
http://home.adelphia.net/~bmss/vo/
you truly can get started with a very minimal set of commands and
learn the rest as you go.
2. is the macintosh a stable environment in which tow ork
If you mean "Does it crash often", I'd have to say no. There are
times where VO is sluggish, and honestly I'm not sure what is related
to VO and what's related to my slow Mac. But pages with flash
content, for instance, are hideously slow! Mostly though, when you
find things that work with VO, they work well, and you can actually
do productive work with them.
3. can i use chat clients with voice over like AOL instant
messenger, MSN messenger etcetra?
Yes. Fire (http://fire.sourceforge.net) is really fantastic. It takes
a bit of getting used to, but it really is very usable once you
figure out its ideosyncracies in how it works with VO.
4. I am a student at university here in the united kingdom, can i
get multilingual speech from the built in voice over voices,
available to me?
Unfortunately, no. Someonee else might want to address this further.
5. finally for now, smile, can i use skype with voice over, i.e.
access the call lists, make a call, etcetra
Yes, at least as of Skype 1.X. I haven't upgraded to the new version
so have no idea how accessible the new version is.
regards, will
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