Voxin was: Re: Switching to Linux

[Tony Baechler]

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I'm sorry, but I have to agree with Kyle and the Speakup developers here.
 On the Windows side of things, GW Micro has to ship a custom dictionary
with Window-Eyes to prevent the "new" version of Eloquence from crashing.
 Regardless of the issues with old C libraries, it is not maintained and
can't be for the reason Kyle said.  IBM used to maintain Viavoice and
dropped it in 2000 if that gives a clue.  However, to me, even though I
also see John's point and agree that it sounds better than ESpeak for
daily use, it is not free software.  It's non-free both in the sense of
cost and source.  People here can complain all they want about ESpeak, but
there is absolutely nothing preventing a programmer from modifying the
source and data as they wish to make it sound better, hint hint.  Also as
Kyle says, Festival isn't too bad and I like it a little better, but it's
very sluggish when reading. There is also MBrola, but it's also non-free.
 Samuel Thibault did package MBrola for Debian though, so at least you can
install it like a regular package.

On 5/9/2013 4:05 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
>> but I guess that's no different from what Microsoft has been doing
>> for years <smile>
> yeah... totally. Now if you had any clue what you were talking about
> short of the usual windows bashing on a Linux list, we might actually
> be able to take you seriously.
> 
> Also I honestly see nothing wrong with voxen/eloquence. Sure it is
> outdated and has problems, but I prefer it to the harsh headcold sound
> of ESpeak. It's a matter of preference that doesn't exactly set voxen
> or espeak above one or the other.
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