Re: [orca-list] How many people us voxin?

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Ridiculous. I use it every day in a production environment and find it absolutely reliable. Furthermore I use 
it in windows which is notoriously insecure system. It works great. If you're not going to use it do not use 
its old nature orator call it unreliable because it is not true

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On Jan 7, 2013, at 5:47 PM, Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com> wrote:

> I don't use Voxin or any of its other various incarnations. One reason, although not at all the main 
> reason, is that it's proprietary, meaning that there can be absolutely no community participation in its 
> development. I also don't use it here because I can't stand the way it sounds; it literally makes my head 
> hurt. However, the main reason I don't use it and can't recommend it for daily use, and possibly the main 
> reason you are having problems with it, is the fact that many different companies own licenses to cell it, 
> and to call it what they like, but no one appears to have the source code, which hasn't even been rebuilt 
> in more than 10 years. This means that no one has the ability to fix any bugs, no matter how much they may 
> want to fix them. It also means that the binary code, which was last built probably 12 years ago, depends 
> on horribly outdated versions of C libraries and other core system-level code, which are bundled with 
> Voxin, IBMTTS, TTSynth and other various renamings of the same software for compatibility, but run poorly 
> on today's hardware, and even have the potential to reintroduce vulnerabilities and/or security exploits 
> into your system that were fixed long ago, but may not yet have been fixed in the compatibility libraries 
> that are being installed just to make Voxin and its relatives speak. In short, if you just want a toy Linux 
> box to play around with, Voxin or something similar may be OK, but avoid this abandonware like the plague 
> if you want to use it in a production or mission-critical environment.
>
> As for eSpeak, I use it every day here on my main box, and it's the primary speech synthesizer in most 
> distributions, completely supplanting Festival and/or Flite over 5 years ago. It is free, open source 
> software under the terms of the GPL license, so community participation is possible and encouraged. The 
> source code is freely available, so when bugs crawl out, they can be squashed by anyone who knows how to 
> squash them. Because the source code is available, it is possible to keep eSpeak updated and built against 
> the current libraries and system-level code, so that no old vulnerabilities, security exploits or crashes 
> will be introduced in order to get an old compiled binary working. Furthermore, over the years, eSpeak has 
> become one of the best free (as in freedom) speech synthesizers available, which is capable of running 
> quite responsively on more hardware than almost all other speech synthesizers, both free and proprietary. 
> Hope this helps.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/
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