[raspberry-vi] Re: Voxin

  • From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:56:49 +0000

John,

It might be worth asking the right person at IBM.  Finding the right 
person will be difficult in such a megalith though.

They aren't totally ignorant and opposed to Open Source though, they 
have just given a chunk of code from IBM Lotus Symphony to Apache for 
OpenOffice.

Mike




On 16/03/2013 23:50, John G. Heim wrote:
> Did they say there was any possibility at all of porting it to the RP? I 
> don't know how that would be technically possible. They don't have the source 
> code, how are they going to port it? You'd think it was technically possible, 
> they'd have already recompiled it to Intel 64 bit architecture.
> IBM could probably port it. Maybe the oralux people could talk to IBM about 
> it. But beyond that, I don't think there is much oralux can do.  What we 
> should really do is try to get IBM to release the source code for voxin. 
> Hello, IBM, do you realize this is 2013?
>
> On Mar 15, 2013, at 10:43 PM, Glenn wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> I contacted Oralux about making Voxin available for Raspbian and/or Arch,
>> and although it may never happen, if you have purchased Voxin before, or
>> would do so in the future, you might wish to contact them.
>> Their contact info is:
>> contact@xxxxxxxxxx
>> For anyone who does not know what Voxin is, it is the voice that sounds like
>> Eloquence in JFW or NVDA or Windoweyes.  It is also known as ViaVoice.
>> I think it is about 6 dollars.
>> The home page is:
>> http://voxin.oralux.net/index.php
>> Glenn
>>
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