Re: [orca-list] The new Hypra website

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

OCR is much more complicated and therefore a non free solution might
be better, just because people will have lots more time to work on
it.  I don't know what they are proposing here, but ocr is one of
those things where volunteer efforts sometimes leave something to be
desired.

On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 06:30:41 -0400,
kendell clark wrote:
> hi
>
> I haven't read the goals of hypra, I want to make that clear. But
> based on what kyle says I have to agree with him. Fix the
> available open source stuff, like espeak, which desperately needs
> people. I do what I can but I'm only one person. Begging
> proprietary companies to for example update eloquence for linux
> will probably please a few people who won't use anything else but
> it won't do a thing for espeak. Instead of asking a company to
> make a proprietary expensive OCR package like kirzwale, god I
> hope I'm not mangling that one too horribly, available for linux,
> concentrate on either improving the open source OCR engines like
> teseract and kuniform or write another one. My opinion can
> basically be summed up as rather than trying to make linux into
> windows by adding non free code, make it better by writing free
> code and improving the existing stuff we have now. It's not easy,
> this I know first hand from trying to get people who don't use
> linux interested in it but people will find us eventually. That's
> something I've also learned. I don't have to preach and
> procilitize, people will find linux when they get tired of
> whatever OS they use. Until then they will often refuse to listen
> to you, make excuses for your reasons, and generally make you
> want to crawl into a hole and never come out. Talk to fudge or
> luke one of these days if you think I'm exagerating.
>
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
> On 08/25/2016 05:13 AM, Kyle wrote:
> > We already have complete free software solutions for both ocr
> > and speech synthesis. Along with improving accessibility of
> > applications and desktop environments, it would be better to
> > improve and suggest bug fixes for the free software ocr and
> > speech synthesis solutions we already have rather than relying
> > on the proprietarianists to keep their software updated and
> > maintained,. It would seem that the overall goal here is to
> > help the community at large, and improving existing free
> > software will go much further toward that goal than serving
> > proprietary interests ever could. Just my thoughts, thanks for
> > reading.
> > Sent from the thunder
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