What's wrong with the IBM via voice you can buy for like 45 bucks it sounds better than window-eyes 5.5 and about the same as jaws with it? Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of The Elf Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 3:40 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included I just wish that they could come up with some better voices for orca, and a decent female voice for eloquence or the other TTS voices for jaws inthane ----- Original Message ----- From: "black ares" <matematicianu2003@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 1:39 AM Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included > don't forget that jaws is not a microsoft software and, taking software > only from the two grand companies, sun is better than microsoft. > Because, with orca you can do more than with narator from windows. > So Sun has right assuming it as the best company offering an advanced os > with speak. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 10:08 AM > Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included > > >> Windows is an operating system with speech included. Do you want to >> create a >> better OS than Windows and a better screen reader than Narrator? >> I guess you want to create a better one, because otherwise... why bother? >> >> In order to do that, you should create a company, employ a few thousands >> of >> good programmers and after very many years you might do it. >> Sun Microsystems has tens of thousands of programmers and they pretend >> that >> they have created the most advanced operating system in the world, and >> they >> have also made one of the most used screen readers for Linux, but the >> accessibility offered by their solutions is much lower than the one >> offered >> by Windows and screen readers like Jaws, and Sun work on their OS for >> very >> many years, so... it could be very hard to do what you want. >> >> Octavian >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jose Lomeli" <jose.lomeli93@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:05 AM >> Subject: Creating an Operating System with speech included >> >> >>> Hello; Listers, I just thought. What do I have to do to create a >>> operating system with speech. I just thought about this. Can this be >>> done? Please write back. >>> From Jose Lomeli. >>> __________ >>> View the list's information and change your settings at >>> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >>> >> >> __________ >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >> > > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind