Re: [orca-list] voxin for amd64

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

Given all the technical hassles in getting this thing to work, I
personally wouldn't waste my time if I were you.

On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 02:44:48PM -0500, Kyle wrote:
> Voxin is not available for AMD64, because the synthesizer it is
> using was built long before the 64-bit architecture was available.
> In fact, it depends on old libraries that were outdated in 2004, and
> because it uses proprietary, closed-source code, it would be
> impossible to rebuild it with newer libraries or even to fix any
> bugs it has, especially since the original maintainers of the
> codebase seem to have entirely abandoned it. That being said, the
> 32-bit version should work without too many issues aside from bugs,
> as long as you can get the proper compatibility libraries for Voxin
> and the needed 32-bit compatibility libraries installed.
> ~Kyle
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