[Loadstone] self-voiceing loadstone

[Alex Jurgensen]

Hi Josh and others,

Apple's iPhone has a free screen reader. It is, in my opinion, more  
user friendly than any of the non-touchscreen screen readers for PC's.  
I say this because there is also a desktop version.

I know this is a little off-topic. I mention it because I am working  
on a project, using Loadstone components, for it because I don't fancy  
using expensive screen readers.

You can follow its development at: http://www.twitter.com/vipbc/ .

I really believe in the way Loadstone works and I wish to contribute  
code to the project in the near future so don't think I am trying to  
slam it.

Regards,
Alex,


Alex Jurgensen,
AWEBSIGHT Administrator,
ICE Customer Care,
VoiceOver Trainer,
ASquared21 at visionmail.uni.cc			

Visit us on the web at: http://www.visionmail.uni.cc/

On 2009-11-03, at 12:55 PM, monty at loadstone-gps.com wrote:

> Products generally follow the laws of supply and demand plus  
> competition.
>
> If enough people are willing to buy a product at a certain price  
> then that's what the product will sell for.  I personally think  
> people have a right to sell a product for as much as they feel they  
> can get for it without exploitation.  It's called motivation!  If  
> screen reader developers didn't have motivation we wouldn't have  
> screen readers!
>
> In the software world we have something called open-source.  It  
> means you can develop something and make it freely available for  
> others to use.  In my opinion this concept negates people's ability  
> to complain about the cost of software because with some motivation  
> of your own you can design free software.  It works, trust me that's  
> what we did!
>
> There's those who "do" and those who want it "done for them" but I  
> digress!
>
> Monty
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think part of the reason why talks and mobilespeak are expensive  
>> is becausethey use synthesizers which are expensive to license like  
>> eloquence and scansoft. If they would use ESpeak or festival, free  
>> open source speech synthesizers, then that would probably bring  
>> down the cost a lot.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> send email to myself at jkenn337 at gmail.com www.satogo.com Get  
>> klango at www.klango.net it's free! Get NVDA www.nvda-project.org  
>> it's free! Grab Ubuntu at www.ubuntu.com it's free! and www.twitter.com/jkenn337 
>>  follow-me-on-twitter.
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