Hi Jacob,
While I totally agree with your comments on pre-rendered speech, I'd
like to point out that any WM6 powered phone with a mobile screen
reader is going to run you as much or more than a new iPhone at $199.
MobileSpeak is outrageous, and the AT&T subsidizing of MS is a
complete joke. My GF has the same exact phone as I do, we're both on
AT&T, and her voice plan is the same as mine, and yet they will not
sell her MobileSpeak, though they had no problem selling it to me.
It's ridiculous. Their reasoning? They say it doesn't work on that
model of phone. It does, their web site says it does, and i've been
using it on my phone for ages.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. If we could get an iPhone that was
accessible out of the box, it would be a much cheaper proposition than
a WM 6 phone.
Josh de Lioncourt
...my other mail provider is an owl...
On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
The only problem with having pre-rendered speech on the iPhone is
that the device has way too many capabilities to be covered by any
type of pre-rendered speech. It may be able to pre-render the main
menus and the phone book, and your music library. Then what? Web
browsing? Email? Applications? Text messaging? None of that would
work, and that's what makes the iPhone worth having IMHO. Otherwise
I'd just by a new wm6 phone at half the price.
