AFAIK, Voxin sounds exactly like ViaVoice, Elloquence, IBMTTS, TTSynth
and all the others that are just different names for the same old mess
that JAWS is still using. To me they all sound the same: very robotic
and like they have something in their mouths while speaking. My vote is
for eSpeak, which is at present the best free as in speech and beer
synth available, although I'm sure the dev would certainly appreciate a
donation in the amount you were willing to spend on Voxin. It does have
a British accent by default, and the US English voice has a rather funny
accent as well, but the consonants and even the vowels are rendered much
more clearly than the old ViaVoice-based synths of the past, not to
mention the fact that eSpeak is still being maintained upstream, whereas
the synthesizer licensed by Voxin hasn't been maintained upstream for at
least 5 years and requires legacy compatibility libraries which could
easily break with the next release of your favorite distro.
~Kyle
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