Re: [orca-list] Voxin 1.14: Your opinion?

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

My opinion is that Voxin and anything else that uses its binaries and 
SDK should be discontinued. It's getting harder and harder to maintain, 
the underlying speech code simply can't be maintained at all, because 
the source is either lost, damaged or otherwise unavailable even to 
potential maintainers, it's highly insecure because it relies on older 
and older system libraries to try to keep it running, the underlying 
speech synthesizer binary is probably older than Windows ME, which is 
another piece of old technology that has by now been relegated to the 
circular file, it has horrible bugs that can't be fixed that cause it to 
crash on things as simple as typos and OCR mistakes,  and worst of all, 
it costs money just to use it. If it was a computer we purchased online, 
we would be giving it 1-star ratings and demanding a refund, or seeing 
the bad reviews and all the gymnastics it takes just to get it set up 
and halfway working, we would simply refuse to purchase it. My opinion 
is that it's a crying shame that this broken piece of trash is still not 
being allowed to die the death of most old, broken and unmaintainable 
software.

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