[raspberry-vi] Re: Voxin
- From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:33:39 +0000
Hello John,
It sounds as if you might carry some weight if you were to ask IBM this
question.
I am sure there would be a large degree of interest. If Voxin is as
responsive as espeak and really does sound identical to eloquence then
the Windows users who use NVDA (of which I am one), would be interested
also.
There is an embargo on talking about eloquence on either of the NVDA
email lists because of danger to NV Access if users admit using dodgy
copies of eloquence on NVDA> A lot of people would be interested in an
identically sounding alternative.
Personally, I am happy with espeak, and I think the guy who created
espeak can probably walk on water.
Mike
On 17/03/2013 00:26, John G. Heim wrote:
> I wonder what the relationship is between the voxin voice and the eloquence
> voice used by jaws. As you noted, they sound exactly alike. IBM isn't going o
> make any money selling voxin. But they might still be making money off
> eloquence if there is some relationship there.
>
> I'm President of the International Association of Visually Impaired
> Technologists (www.iavit.org). I'm willing to lead an effort to try to get
> IBM to release the source code for voxin. The people on the orca list would
> probably be interested in this too.
>
> On Mar 16, 2013, at 7:06 PM, Glenn wrote:
>
>> I haven't heard back from them yet.
>> Glenn
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John G. Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 6:50 PM
>> Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Voxin
>>
>>
>> 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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