[stylist] ZT vs Magic

[Carrie Delecourt]

I was a long-time Magic (with speech) user until I upgraded to Windows
7 and upgraded to the latest version of Magic, and began to have
terrible problems that often made me want to tear my hair out. I sent
many a teary email to Freedom Scientific but nobody could figure out
what was happening. Happily, last December I downloaded the trial
version of Zoomtext (with speech) and found that I preferred Zoomtext
to Magic, and not just because of the incompatibility problems I'd
been having. I decided I'd rather switch than fight, so I did,
although I still use an old version of Magic with my elderly - but
still faithful - XP desktop. French pronunciation is terrible, though
(grin).

Good luck,

Carrie in Paris



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> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:02:18 -0500
> From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
> To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [stylist] Magic and Zoomtext,  both can talk RE: more about
>        Does anyone use MAGIC or        have    experiencewith it?
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> Lynda
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> Do you have the version of zoomtext that has speech? Zoomtext's choices of
> voices is a good one; they have a much better sounding voice than jaws does.
>
> Lynda if you are not using the voice feature, then hey lady you are  not
> using the full power of Zoomtext! (you can turn on and off where it is that
> you want it to read too you. Boy, I've seen some eye ball it to where they
> want to be, then and only then turn on the doc reader and set back and let
> the program do the work!
>
> So just curious.
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