Re: Not reading the text on screen.
Re: Not reading the text on screen.
- Subject: Re: Not reading the text on screen.
- From: David Niemeijer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:45:04 +0200
At 9:59 +0200 8/5/07, Uli Kusterer wrote:
On 08.05.2007, at 06:47, David Niemeijer wrote:
To me your case shows that there should be a way for applications
to provide pronunciation hints for their own interface so that you
could stick to the ISBN label, yet provide a pronunciation
dictionary or so with your app that VoiceOver or other assistive
apps could use (or not use). What do you think?
Or not. I've heard from a linguist that many people who need things
like VoiceOver have their voice settings set up to very weird
settings. E.g. very fast and such. They hear that voice so often
that they can understand it very well, and are aware of its
pronunciation quirks. So your fixing up "ISBN" may be very
confusing, and may not actually be a problem to your users because
they know the voice.
User's vary. It is true that blind users have a tendency to listen to
voices at a high speech rate, but again, not everyone who needs
speech support is blind. What about people with cognitive impairments
or people who cannot read, they may want to listen to the voice at
normal speed. I think pronunciation hints provided by an application
could be useful.
In addition, Apple keep fixing lots of things in these voices,
which means it'll get better across the board, so this may not be an
issue in a few releases. I'd suggest you file a bug and let the
Apple Speech Technology group (or whatever they call themselves
these days? "I helped Apple to wreck a nice beach"? ;-) ) figure out
the best approach.
If you mean with a few release by Mac OS X 10.7, it may mean waiting
for another 5 years. Also, there are an increasing number of Third
party voices such as the Infovox iVox voices, the Cepstral ones, etc.
If there were a mechanism for applications to provide pronunciation
hints matching their interface language it might be more useful than
Apple ironing out all possible pronunciation issues of (just) the
English language.
david.
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