Voxin was: Re: Switching to Linux

[Tony Baechler]

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Thank you for mentioning this!  That was the point I was trying to make,
but I wasn't sure how to put it.  No, I don't see it becoming open source
any time soon.  It would be better to either rewrite something already out
there or write something from scratch, such as what was done with ESpeak.
 Say what you want about the quality of the voice, but ESpeak still
remains the only truly open source solution in active development which
doesn't crash and is very responsive.  The Festival voices seem to be
abandoned if I understand correctly.  Mbrola isn't bad, but it is non-free
and is also not further developed.

With that said, I know very little about Voxin or whatever you want to
call it except that Oralux probably shouldn't legally be packaging it,
which is another reason why I wouldn't buy it.  I do know that there is
such a thing as Eloquence for Linux which sounds the same as ViaVoice but
it isn't.  I have used it and the old APH Braille+ ships it.  When this
was pointed out to me, I didn't believe it, but I tracked down the library
on the system.  I'm pretty sure it uses an ARM processor, so that won't
help much.  Also, as I mentioned in a previous post, GW Micro ships a
"new" version with Window-Eyes now.  I don't know what version it is or
what the differences are, but it's supposed to not crash as often and
maybe (I don't know) it supports 64-bit Windows since there is a 64-bit
Window-Eyes.  Therefore, just from my own evidence, I would agree that
it's still making money under whatever name you want to call it.  By all
means I hope they're willing to release the source, but don't hold your
breath.

On 5/11/2013 11:36 AM, Janina Sajka wrote:

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