Re: Talking American Heritage
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:06:09 -0800
Hey, that's what it seems to be called when I Googled it, too. Nothing to
apologize about. But still, from what I can see, it's not clear which
edition of the dictionary this actually is, and who published it. I'll keep
looking and learning. Meantime, the new version of the Houghton Mifflin
American Heritage really does need all those tricks I think it was you who
described. And honestly, with all due respect, I get tired of spending as
much time as I sometimes have to fooling around with my blind technology
instead of concentrating on productive things it's meant to enable me to do.
So if I have to take a short course in customizing things about silent
frames and the jaws cursor and all that, I'll likely pass and try a more
accessible dictionary. No, I don't mean Word Web. that isn't what I need,
though I'm fully aware it's convenient and adequate and, yes, free and so
many people appreciate it. That's fine. I'm just not coming from the same
place, as we say.
Thanks a lot,
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav.lal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Talking American Heritage
YardBird,
The "talking american heritage" dictionary is not a self voicing
application. <smile
I know where you are coming from and I should have included the full
name in my post.
Pranav
on Thursday 11/10/2005 07:16 AM, Yardbird said:
But Pranav, you see, if they call one "the talking American Heritage
Dictionary," that's a brand name, which means it isn't another
edition of
the dictionary. I need to know which edition of the American
Heritage any
of these actually are. Thanks for explaining.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav.lal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: Talking American Heritage
Yardbird,
The American Heritage dictionary speaks the pronunciation of words.
It is not a self voicing application.
Pranav
on Wednesday 11/9/2005 10:13 AM, Yardbird said:
I've just been googling around to find some descriptive information
about
this product, but so far there's one thing I can't figure out. Is
this
actually a self-voicing piece of software,in the sense that Open Book
is? I
read a university library's instructions about how to use the library
copy
of it, but all it referred to was what the user would see on the
screen.
These control buttons up here, this field for showing definitions
there, and
so forth. Not a word about it speaking as it displays.
Can anyone who uses this product explain how it works, in that
sense? Does
it chatter away speaking everything you type and read in it,
conflicting
with Jaws? If so, do you have to turn off Jaws while you use
it? Also, if
it is self voicing, why was it developed? To help people with
cognitive
problems so they could see the words and definitions but be helped to
get
them in mind better because the computer spoke everything aloud?
thanks.
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