Re: [orca-list] eloquence and ibm

[Farhan <i am farhan gmail com>]

viavoice and eloquence are not the same.
They do sound the same, yes but there are some fundimental differences.
the only major one I can think of, if viavoice is speaking at a high rate of speed it slirs words together 
and at the  highest rate of speed it is not understandable.

On 10/26/2008 at 14:37 mattias said
are viavoice and eloquence not the same?
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 12:35 +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> 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.
>
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