Hi Jessica,
I realize that one can't compare the abilities of one to the other,
however, when I was speaking about the two, I was referring to
constants in screen readers, that is, their ability to read every
bit of text on the screen, whether it's Jaws, Window Eyes or
Voiceover, the two have that one thing in common, that is they take
the text on the screen, and present it to the user in a way that the
voice can interpret it and read it out loud to the user.
I agree, I may very well be an instant convert to the Apple side of
things.
I actually found myself selling MAC's to a friend/client of mine
today while I was visiting her.
I was showing her my I Phone, and I told her about the Greek
synthesizer on the phone.
I switched the synthesizer to the Greek synth, and the entire phone
switched to another language, icons and all.
Granted, there were several icons in Greek she didn't know what they
were, but she, like me, was completely surprised at the ease this
device switched from one language to the other and vice versa at the
flick of a switch, no pun intended. LOL.
Suffice it to say, if MAC's voiceover is every bit as capable as
voiceover is on the I Phone, then I know for a fact that this person
will be purchasing a MAC in the near future.
Having said that, I do realize that there were some shortcomings,
but the pros more than outweighed the cons for her, and I, to be
truthful, and I never thought I would say that about any Apple
product. LOL.
Heck, the darn thing even started talking in Portuguese, which is my
native tongue, and, I understood what was being said, which is way
more than I thought any synthesizer would ever do for me.
I thought that when I went blind, I would lose my ability to read in
Portuguese, and with Jaws, I wasn't far from the truth.
I have tried numerous times to read in Portuguese, and just couldn't
understand the synth or what it read, no matter how much I slowed
the speech rate down.
When I heard the I Phone read Portuguese, and clearly, I was
intrigued, to say the least.
I can pretty much guarantee that I'll be playing with the Portuguese
version of this phone in the next coming weeks. LOL.
Victor
