There are a number of speech engines built into Mac OS X which bear
distinct
if not exact resemblence to those found on earlier OS versions, I don't
know/remember their origins but they do go a way back and quality not as
good as one might be used to with Jaws. There is the Cepstral speech
engine
selected by default which is somewhat better.
I confess no deep expertise of VoiceOver but some experience having used
it,
therefore someone may have a correction here. I don't believe VoiceOver
has
quick navigation keys for the Internet quite in the same way as you would
expect of Jaws/WindowsEyes etc. These innovations are yet to come on that
platform, given an initial two year development cycle and first working
version this is somewhat understandable at this juncture.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tink Watson" <tink@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "BCAB List" <bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Access UK"
<access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 3:43 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Mac OSx Tiger, Voice Over.
Afternoon,
I recall a discussion not long ago on one or other of these lists about
the Voice Over screen reader on the Mac. Apologies to which ever list it
wasn't on. *Smile.
Could anyone help with the following questions?
1. Does Voice Over support quick navigation keys on web pages?
For example, Jaws and Window Eyes both use the l key to move to the
next
list on a page, or Shift l to move to the previous list on the page.
Jaws also uses g and shift g to move between graphics, p and shift p to
move between paragraphs and t and shift t to move between tables.
2. What Text to Speech (TTS) engine does Voice Over use?
I've been trawling the Apple web site, but don't seem to be able to
find
much information apart from the basic marketing blurb.
If anyone could let me know where I can find more substantial
information on Voice Over, or if anyone has the manual they can let me
have
electronically, I'd be most grateful.
As always, thanks for any help.
Tink.
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