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

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

I've been using it successfully for the last 15 years.  I know about the
words you mentioned.  There's another:  web his day all together without
spaces will crash it.  It is, however, a very trivial matter to realias that
word and make it not pronounce it in such a manner as to crash the system.
Also, I have never encountered the word you spelled out.  Eloquence is still
a good product, its age notwithstanding.  It's no accident that some of the
most popular screen reading and assistive technologies ever written use it
as the default synthesizer.  There are tens of thousands of users if not
millions in many countries using it in many languages.  There are more users
of it, I am quite sure, than of e-speak, Festival, Cicero  or svox-pico all
put together because it works so well as a text to speech tool.  To say that
it is unfit for a production environment is wildly inaccurate in the face of
its popularity in just such an environment.  There are admittedly better
tools than this one but that doesn't make it unfit for use in production
systems.  

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of Kyle
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 11:04 PM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] How many people us voxin?

For a good product, Voxin sure will crash your system on a simple typo or
even a word. And it's impossible to fix, because it's unmaintained since
2002 or earlier, and no one even knows who has the code to be able to fix
it. Yes, Voxin, with its shinier, newer name, still crashes on the word c a
e s u r e, which is more common than you think. Also, I can't stress enough
the problems that can be caused by running 
12+-year-old core libraries on a modern system. I'm not exagerating or
being ridiculous in any way when I say avoid this synthesizer, especially in
a production environment. It may have been a fairly good product 10 years
ago, and it may have even been a great product 15 years ago, while someone
was still maintaining the codebase, but it's certainly far from acceptable
now, even on Windows, where the word crashes are mostly worked around with
dictionary exceptions, and old core libraries still have to be installed to
the system to make it work.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
--
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Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
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