Not meaning to get off topic, but what about Linux? Since I suppose Thom you use Linux pretty heavily, what's the screen reader output on that if you know?
Thanks. > ----- Original Message ----- >From: Thomas Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Gamers Discussion list <gamers@audyssey.org >Date sent: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:50:56 -0500 >Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games Engine was gma game engine >Hi Bryan and all, >I'd like to make a couple of corrections about the Mac. I've seen a few >comments based on very old out dated information that is no longer true >for Mac OS. So I'd like to spend the next couple of paragraphs to point >out some of these changes. >First, the Outspoken screen reader for Mac no longer exists. It was >discontinued sometime around the time Mac OS X came out. Apple has made >its own sscreen reader, VoiceOver, which is built directly into Mac OS >Tiger and Mac OS Leopard. >There are many advantages that VoiceOver has over Outspoken. One of >these is because VoiceOver is intigrated into the Mac OS installation >you can install Mac OS with speech. You never have to depend on someone >else to help you install the operating system. >Second, it is true under Mac OS 9 and earlier the Apple voices were not >very good. Under Mac OS 10.4 and later the speech quality is as good as >if not better than Windows TTS engines. I've recently had a chance to >play with VoiceOver on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and it is extremely >responsive. The TTS engines are extremely good. >Third, a lot of people are all too quick to point out there is more >software for Windows than Mac. This is true in some respects, but there >is a lot of Mac stuff out there that probably goes unnoticed. One reason >is not every computer store nation wide carries Mac stuff. You usually >have to go to a special Mac dealer to get Mac software and hardware. >Some dealers carry both, but they aren't as many as those exclusively >selling Windows based PC software and hardware. >Another reason Mac OS software may go unnoticed is that there is a lot >more open source applications for Mac then there is for Windows. Since >it is open source it doesn't ship with the OS or come on a cd from a >computer store. You will need to download it from the internet, run it >through the Mac compilers, and install it. No problem for guys like me >who have been doing this for 10 years on Linux. >Bryan Peterson wrote: >> And I don't know if it's improved much since the days when I was forced to >> use it by the fact that my High School's computer lab was all Mac, but I >> absolutely hated OutSpoken. I could hardly understand the darn thing most of >> the time. And that annoying crackling noise it always made didn't help any. >> Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
