No correction required, you've obviously bought the NVDA licence right? That's 
exactly what I paid.


On 25/01/2013, at 12:13 AM, Nicolai Svendsen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dane,
> 
> Just a correction. I paid €75 for my license, which is about $100 I'd guess. 
> It used to say on the site that some of it is donated, but I don't remember 
> how much.
> 
> Aside from that, the voices work very well. I also find the auto-language 
> switching a very good feature, especially when I actually need to use 
> multi-lingual documents.
> 
> Regards,
> Nicolai
> Den 24-01-2013 13:27, Dane Trethowan skrev:
>> Hi Everyone and - wherever you are - I trust you're comfortable whatever the 
>> weather is doing in your part of the world <smile>.
>> 
>> Had an interesting discussion with someone earlier on today regarding the 
>> Vocaliser voices and what Screen Reading software will work with them.
>> 
>> Here's a summary of what I know and others may wish to add comments or 
>> correct me if appropriate.
>> 
>> A licence can be purchased to unlock the Vocaliser voices with NVDA for 
>> $75.00, 15% of this charge goes to the developers of NVDA as a donation - 
>> NVDA is a Free open source Screen Reading package -.
>> 
>> A licence can be purchased to unlock Vocaliser voices for Window-Eyes at a 
>> cost of $99.00.
>> 
>> Vocaliser voices can be used with JFW, download for free from the Freedom 
>> Scientific web site.
>> 
>> So given all these facts we've been tossing around several questions and 
>> trying to come up with some logical answers.
>> 
>> How is it that a licence for Vocaliser and NVDA is only $75.00 and yet for 
>> Window-Eyes its $99.00? Why are GW Micro asking people to pay for a licence 
>> when Freedom Scientific include all that stuff in the purchase price?
>> 
>> Yep, i take the point that Window-eyes is somewhat cheaper to buy than is 
>> JAWS however! when it comes to flexibility and available options? Well 
>> perhaps one can argue that the extra price is well worth paying and its all 
>> about perception isn't it, I mean you get these extra voices for "Free!" so 
>> to speak when you buy JAWS where its an extra outlay to have these voices 
>> for Window-Eyes and marketing these days has a lot to do with perception.
>> 
>> And finally, perhaps I'm writing to the wrong list but all the Screen 
>> Readers mentioned here are - along with the Vocaliser voices - are indeed 
>> pieces of Windows software, hence my reasoning <smile>.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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