Clearly on the macOS there are keyboard shortcuts for those ever since. You can use audio buttons on stock EarPods or AirPods to activate them. If you have the keyboard on iPad you can use keyboard shortcuts to access them even on iOS. So Speech Central has all those options but they are overall more accessible and there are even more of them (like that you can activate spelling of the current sentence). If you have installed Speech Central on iOS you would find that it is better in that particular field that you wanted to mention as the reason to use Voice Dream. People don't have too much time and that they tend to rely on trusted brands and there is no one to particularly blame for that.īut there is no reason to make false statements without trying Speech Central just because you love Voice Dream brand. I am not happy for that but that is the reality of the consumerism and modern time. It is completely free on iOS when used with VoiceOver as said above.įurther I am aware of the reality that Voice Dream is a stronger brand and that some people might not want even to try Speech Central. If you want to provide negative comments on Speech Central, I would appreciate that you use it at least for 15 minutes before doing that. If you consider this as important (and it is really the only major thing where iOS lacks in accessibility comparing to Android) you may want to send feedback to Apple: Īlso it is very likely from the technical point of view that once Apple releases this for iOS it will soon be able to provide vendor voices on Mac through its App Store. Hopefully there are good chances that such improvement may be released this year. It was reported that Apple has started to work on that at the iOS 14 time frame. Unfortunately iOS doesn't have this capability at the moment. But you can purchase them directly from vendors on their web sites (e.g. While it comes down to personal preference and habits I think that CereProc voices are better than Acapela and it seems that lot of people are in line with this as they have much higher ratings on Google Play.Īs said both Mac and Windows have this capability too, just at the moment such voice apps cannot be provided through the Mac App Store as they need more access to the Mac than what the sandbox offers. Further more you are not limited to what app offers but to what Google Play offers. Buying the voices in Google Play means that you can use them with any application including that you can use them as Talkback (Android term for VoiceOver) voice. If you buy voices buy them on Google Play, not in the app. This is advice for voices on Android (as emmasey mentioned that), though you can apply it to the Mac and Windows too and hopefully in the near future you will be able to apply it on iOS. Might be possible to side load that in the future but I'll leave that to others to figure out. I did also peak to see if an M1 Mac user could download it on the iPhone and iPad app section but it looks like that's disabled. I've been using Voice dream reader for IOS since 2012, and I find it to be a phenomenal product. With that said, I'd say if you want to buy in on the IOS version without a subscription, I'd do it sooner rather than later. Note: This is how I personally am reading it, and I have no information from the author beyond what I read in the blog post linked to above. The way I read it, if you own it now, you can use it forever, but he may change it so that new customers that want to buy in later may need to buy in on a subscription model. Now, I don't know how that stacks up for new customers. So basically if you own it now, you'll have it. It seems like the products we already bought will remain the way they are. It's the line that says that this only applies to new products going forward. I can say that there's one thing in there that struck me. I just took a look at the official explanation. But even then it is not the same if you convert your pricing so that you receive your previous price in few months or in few years. It is much less frequent to sell software without some services as subscription. It is technically impossible to sell it any other way. For example YouTube subscription is technically necessary as they need to pay fees to content owners and server costs. It is really hard to comment subscriptions in general way like Quin did. It is less frequent in consumer industry, but even there TelCos, banks and insurance do that in some cases. There is really nothing unethical in that. This is a usual practice in many industries, for example business-to-business sale is frequently performed this way - you approach the clients of another company and try to win them by presenting a better offer. I am not sure exactly where did I criticize the decisions? I have just quoted the facts and their official documents and presented my policies for the same things.
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