Hi, I notice a lot people are complaining that Apple did not include the voices they now include with the iPhone 3Gs also in Snow Leopard. There may be a lot of reasons why they have not done that. I am not sure it is fair to say it is ridiculous of Apple without knowing the reasons behind it. Maybe the company they are licensing those voice from for the iPhone 3Gs is asking a ridiculously high amount per copy of Snow Leopard Apple will sell. Snow Leopard is sold much cheaper than most updates yet has been worked on for two years by a large team of engineers. I think that is nothing to sneeze at. Also, while people accept the lower quality of those voices for a mobile device, would the majority of Mac users accept it for Mac OS X on a desktop machine? Furthermore, do those voices support all the features needed for Speech Manager compatibility, or would that first require years of work? And, what about the third party voices? For Mac OS X there are multiple third party voices available for a wide range of languages. Should Apple just kill that business and possibly stifle innovation on the Mac platform in the voice area because voices in multiple languages already come free with the OS. For third parties it is hard to compete with free stuff, even if the third party stuff is of better quality. I know it would be bad for our business, but in the long run, it might actually also be bad for end-users. Things are not simply black or white.
Anyway, I think there may be plenty of reasons for Apple's decision that we as outsiders do not know about. Some of those reasons you and I might consider good others we might consider bad, but I personally do not think we know enough about the issues involved to call it ridiculous, especially after all Apple has been doing these last couple of years in the accessibility area. Cheers, david. On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:04 PM, James & Nash wrote: > The voices from Acapella are great but it's rediculous that Apple keep > avoiding the answer on whether or not they will ever include other > language > voices as they do in the IPhone. If they can do it in the IPhone > they can do > so in Mac OS X 10.6 +. This is especiallly true considering that > they are > based in California whre are large percentage of the population are > Spanish > speaking. The same is true for Braille. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
