It's a business thing. Far as I have come to know, no Scansoft voices can be
bought as stand-alone voices. You will have to buy them from dealers, and
they are only allowed to sell the voice in connection with their products.
Strictly spoken, if you are the owner of Nuance Omnipage, and you decide to
buy a Scansoft voice (which in fact is a Nuance product) with TextAloud, you
are not allowed to use the Scansoft voice with Omnipage. In other words, you
are not allowed to use Nuance voices with Nuance products, simply because
they were bought in separate stores. Go figure. Unfortunately, this is the
case with most voices on the market, from most manufacturers. Some voices
are "blocked" from usage outside a given product, like we know it from
Eloquence with Window-Eyes. Other voices still show up in the list of SAPI
voices in any of your SAPI supported software.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hoff Jr" <[email protected]>
To: "Mike Pietruk" <[email protected]>
Cc: "WE English mailing list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: Synthesizer Question
I'm not sure. Since I have OmniPage 16 it is available to WE and
TextAloud. I think the TextAloud version might only be usable in
TextAloud. When I purchased OmniPage 16 they informed me that the voice
"Tom" would not ve available to any program but OmniPage 16 but they were
wrong. I would think you could buy OmniPage 16 from eBay for less and
at the same time have a program very usable for scanning books.
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David Hoff Jr <[email protected]>
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