Hello, fellow Apple users,
I hope you are doing well during this winter season.
I recently listened to the Blind Android Users podcast, where they interviewed the individual from the coat factory. During the interview, they mentioned that the eloquence text-to-speech feature was not developed for iPhone through the Code Factory. Instead, there is another underlying reason for its presence. The interviewee confirmed that the Code Factory had no involvement in the development of eloquence for iOS and other Apple ecosystems.
I would appreciate your thoughts on this matter. It is concerning that eloquence was introduced to the Apple ecosystem without proper disclosure. I recall when the iOS 17 release was announced, and the Apple representative declined to comment on eloquence when Thomas discussed it in our podcast.
For further reference, I have included a link to the podcast. It is a valuable resource for Android users, and I believe this particular episode is relevant to our discussion.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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All is Well
Hi Roman,
I do not believe there is any issue with Apple's implementation of Eloquence.
To the best of my knowledge, Nuance (now owned by Microsoft) holds/held the relevant rights to Eloquence. Of course, Code Factory has an agreement to distribute Eloquence, but Nuance/Microsoft is the license holder and thus can decide who gets to license the product (and in what capacity). I am guessing that Apple was able to bring Eloquence to their operating systems through the same or a similar agreement that allows for other Nuance voices to be used.
who cares how Eloquence got on iOS?
I tend to agree with Michael. Second who really cares? The point is it is here for those that want to use it. I use it daily and won't use anything else!
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I comprehend and am pleased for the individuals utilizing it, including myself, I am not diminishing that. My concern lies in the instances where the interviewee was questioned by the podcast and failed to provide a definitive response or declined to offer a clear answer. I acknowledge that this may not be the case everywhere. We must be transparent and establish non-disclosure agreements for certain matters. However, when it comes to products witch are beneficial to the visually impaired, shouldn’t we expect clear transparency? This is merely a curious thought of mine, not anything else. I am glad that the text to Speech is available on the iPhone, but my curiosity got the better of me.
If you listened to the podcast
Listen to that question again. He said
"I'm under a NDA and can't say much. I can say we didn't build it" First the fact you are under a NDA says you had some involvement. NDA is short for Non disclosure agreements. This means you can't talk about it until the time has gone by for the agreement.
It doesn't matter
Some agreements are not to be revealed by the Big stakeholders and what we will do by knowing from where from whom we got but finally Apple has officially gave voices of eloquence to use so let us use it and enjoy it