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VisioVoice - 1.1

enhanced access for blind & vision impaired users

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Current Version:	1.1
Release Date:	2007-10-10
License:	Update
Downloads (this version):	1,102
Downloads (all versions):	2,672
Price:	$249

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Product Description:

VisioVoice enhances access to Mac OS X for people with vision impairments through a system-wide talking interface and typing echo, text and image zoom windows, large cursors as well as a document and selection reader. VisioVoice provides naturally sounding voices through the included license of Infovox iVox for one language of choice. VisioVoice can also convert text, Word, PDF, HTML and RTF documents to audio files and iPod and iPhone-ready audiobooks. Blind users can use VisioVoice to as a selection and document reader.

What's new in this version:

Version 1.1 contains the following new and improved features:

Now provides a typing echo as the user types into any application.
The text zoom window now updates as the user types.
Talking interface enhanced to work not only with the mouse but also with full keyboard access.
Talking interface and typing echo support was added for Pages and Keynote (iWork '08 and later).
Improved support for reading text in Safari with VisioVoice's talking interface.
Improved PDF import with smart-stripping of end-of-line hyphens.
Japanese localization was added as well as aÂ JapaneseÂ translation for the Mac OS X 10.4 version of Apple's VoiceOver screen reader for blind users. Use with DTalker 3.0 Japanese voices.
Enhanced compatibility with VoiceOver: if the included Infovox iVox voices are used with VisioVoice, VoiceOver will no longer cut-off speech generation.
Now Leopard-ready.
Many other improvements and fixes.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 and later

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Great for low vision users - Version: 1.0.1, 6/15/2007 12:09AM PST

rickybuchanan

The tools built into OS X are great for those with little or no vision (VoiceOver) or only slight problems (zoom), but for people who still navigate mostly with the mouse but have middling vision impairments I think that VisioVoice is a fantastic program.