[nfbcs] Speech with supplemental large print

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Hi -- I'm sorry I never used wither magic or zoomtext -- when I had partial 
vision I used something called Vista (yes that is what it was called) from 
TSI, which is now out of business.  It ran on DOS, not windows, but was a 
great little tool.
I believe magic and zoomtext are direct competitors of each other, and I 
don't know the benefits of either.  Zoomtext has been around longer, as I 
remember.  Good luck evaluating the options. Maybe you can get demos of them 
to run in 30 minute mode or something so you can try them out.  If you are 
committed to using jaws I think magic would be better as it is made by FS 
and is compatible with jaws.
But that's my only recommendation.
Have fun.
--le


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert Yoo" <albertyoo1 at hotmail.com>
To: <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Speech with supplemental large print



What is the difference between Magic and zoom text? Is one better than the 
other? Albert

> From: lauraeaves at yahoo.com
> To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:15:20 -0600
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Speech with supplemental large print
>
> Hi again -- I always thought magic could be used with jaws, but as I 
> bought
> jaws after I lost my ability to read large print, I never tried magic. 
> Good
> luck finding a solution.
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 1:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Speech with supplemental large print
>
>
> Yes, my husband and I are both using Jaws.
> He looked at both Mabic and Zoomtext, but they both seem like they're
> magnification, with a bit of speech. He really needs the
> opposite--speech, with magnification sometimes.
>
> Maybe the manugacturers figure that people who can use magnification will
> use it until the bitter end, then switch completely to speech. And maybe
> that's how it is; I don't know.
> I just think it would be very useful for my husband to have some
> magnification, but he needs a robust speech package, too.
> Tracy
>
> > you could look at zoomtext. I think magic and zoomtext are the 2 big 
> > name
> > enlargers.
> > Are you a jaws user?
> > --le
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> > To: <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 7:38 AM
> > Subject: [nfbcs] Speech with supplemental large print
> >
> >
> > Is there any program, or programs that play well together, that would 
> > give
> > my husband speech, with large print when he needs it? We looked at 
> > Magic,
> > but that seemed more like large print with some speech, and he needs the
> > other way around.
> >
> > I use a braille display to supplement speech. If something's not clear,
> > or I want to see the spelling, or I need to look at a string of numbers,
> > or see a column layout, I use the braille display. It's extremely
> > helpful. I think my husband would find it equally helpful if he could 
> > use
> > large print in the same way, but I don't know anything about 
> > magnification
> > software.
> > Does anyone know of something that will do what I want?
> > Thanks.
> > Tracy
> >
> >
> >
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