wow, i finally heard a leopard breathe!

[rdfreak]

I was listening to The Blind double Trouble eppisode on the apple mak, and found it very interesting! but the thing is, a few months ago, a few people did an extremely good review of the voiceover Leopard on apple Mak at computer users, and one of the things that stood out for me, was the fact that, they said it actually breathes. For the life of me, I could not hear this when they tried to demonstrate this over skype.
Later on, Dane then sent me another file so as I could attempt to hear this breathing, but i could not hear it.
but just then, when Edward (from the podcast) was setting up his mak, and figuring out the voice, it would read some long strings of text, and, it very clearly breathed! I was so excited, but kinda freaked out at the same time! Even though it kinda sounds natural, well .. it's just bizarre; having a speech synth doing that! Lol
maybe i will get an apple one of these days! but i am kinda building my account up again, after it took a bit of a bashing with my holiday and my m-power.
Til next time, RdFreak

Comments

Re: mac voiceover etc

[khoath.livejournal.com]

Actually you still have to pay for upgrades to the operating system which occur every 2 years or so, and that will set you back $160 to $200 so you don't escape the SMA trap altogether with a Mac you just pay less.

Re: mac voiceover etc

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

ah well, hopefully a future update will support flash and all that, as jaws now does! :)

Re: mac voiceover etc

[khoath.livejournal.com]

Adobe have stated publically that they intend to provide no support for flash on the Mac, as there is insufficient demand. this may change in time, I know Greg Kerney is working on this however there are still far more pcs than Macs and apple has no intentions of adding 3rd party accessability at this time. I'd say we're a year or two from having flash support. There is currently no access to firefox on the Mac so for the moment we are stuck with saphari.

Re: mac voiceover etc

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

well that is definitely such a shame. it seems more and more blindies are turning to Maks, *sigh*