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

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

My opinion is that it's none of our business if someone else wants to 
bang their head against a wall.


On 05/31/2018 06:43 AM, Kyle wrote:
> 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.
>
> Imetumwa kutoka bandari
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