Re: unnecissary voices/foreign language synthesis

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
I've been thinking more about this other language synthesizers issue. I wonder how hard it would be for apple to include by default the voices that it uses for the iPhone on the installation CD of its operating system. That way, a blind person could manage bios and system installation

Re: unnecissary voices/foreign language synthesis

2009-08-25 Thread Scott Howell
And as I keep saying, make your concerns known. It's one thing to state your feelings here, but quite another in stating them to Apple. If enough people really want this and write to Apple, then there is a very good chance it will appear on the right radar screens. There is a number of

Re: unnecissary voices/foreign language synthesis

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
If you checked the sending information for tha message, you would see that I CCed accessibility, along with the other messages I and others have sent them in the past. Regards Justin On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Scott Howell wrote: And as I keep saying, make your concerns known. It's

Re: unnecissary voices/foreign language synthesis

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
Hi there Will It's as Anne said, it's quite disingenuous of them to act as though they never knew we wanted those voices to be included. Of course they knew. There must be a reason behind the decision not to include them be it technical or political. Did Anne give you a french braille