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What kind of apps do you think the SDK will bring and at what price?
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As much as I love the idea of more apps post-SDK, I'm more interested in getting all the functionality I had w/ my Sony Ericsson K790a, you know, things like being able to send SMS to multiple recipients, native MMS, etc. Of course I realize SDK doesn't exactly PREVENT such basic functionality from being added to the iPhone...just sayin' that I'd like to see improvements to the interior of the car before buying 22" wheels!!
Text to Speech Utility
I do not own an iPhone yet. I have 3 obstacles that prevent me from buying one: Purchase price, two-year contract, and the camera. I described my reasons for these in another post. However, if Apple or a third-party would offer a text-to-speech utility it would go a long way toward overcoming those 3 obstacles.
As an individual who suffers a significant speech disability, having a smart phone that could help would help me with communication on the phone. In the office, I use email a lot, and I have a portable computer device based on Windows CE which uses DECtalk to speak almost anything I can type. It is a little slow since I am not a speed typer, but it works OK for face to face conversations as long as I can sit down. However, it is tricky to use to make phone calls; I need a speaker phone, and the person on the other end does not always know that a pause may mean that I am busy trying to think and type a response.
It seems to me like an iPhone might be an almost ideal device for this purpose. Since it is based on Mac OS-X, it should be able to use "Alex" and the other Mac OS-X voices easily enough. And it could also display a message that "So and So is typing a message" (visually and/or audibly), sort of like iChat with a voice.
I would love to see such an application made available free or at reasonable cost, and would then be glad to pay the price to buy and activate the iPhone.
I do not own an iPhone yet. I have 3 obstacles that prevent me from buying one: Purchase price, two-year contract, and the camera. I described my reasons for these in another post. However, if Apple or a third-party would offer a text-to-speech utility it would go a long way toward overcoming those 3 obstacles.
As an individual who suffers a significant speech disability, having a smart phone that could help would help me with communication on the phone. In the office, I use email a lot, and I have a portable computer device based on Windows CE which uses DECtalk to speak almost anything I can type. It is a little slow since I am not a speed typer, but it works OK for face to face conversations as long as I can sit down. However, it is tricky to use to make phone calls; I need a speaker phone, and the person on the other end does not always know that a pause may mean that I am busy trying to think and type a response.
It seems to me like an iPhone might be an almost ideal device for this purpose. Since it is based on Mac OS-X, it should be able to use "Alex" and the other Mac OS-X voices easily enough. And it could also display a message that "So and So is typing a message" (visually and/or audibly), sort of like iChat with a voice.
I would love to see such an application made available free or at reasonable cost, and would then be glad to pay the price to buy and activate the iPhone.