Re: [orca-list] eloquence and ibm

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
Good its not just me noticing some slight differences between viavoice
and eloquence.

When I had a look for eloquence for linux all I was coming up with is
that eloquence for linux can only be bought as the eloquence SDK and
possibly bulk licenses. There didn't seem to be anything for a single
user license to be bought.

If it were possible to get hold of eloquence, I believe only
gnome-speech (out of those systems orca can use) has a working driver,
although I would imagine that it wouldn't be hard for the viavoice
driver of speech-dispatcher to be altered to support eloquence (as they
both support the ECI system).

In case you don't know of it, currently both eloquence and IBM viavoice
seem to be owned by nuance (used to be scansoft).

Michael Whapples
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 08:22 +0530, Aruni Sharma wrote:
> Hi listers, I have seen some discussions during past few days about 
> eloquence on the list. How are the two packages different? I know that 
> IBM comes with voxin and TTSynth. where is eloquence available? There 
> are minor differences between the two packages under windows. I want to 
> know this, as I am not very happpy with the response of the IBM under linux.
> Thanks and regards,
> Aruni.