-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Thank you for mentioning this! That was the point I was trying to make, but I wasn't sure how to put it. No, I don't see it becoming open source any time soon. It would be better to either rewrite something already out there or write something from scratch, such as what was done with ESpeak. Say what you want about the quality of the voice, but ESpeak still remains the only truly open source solution in active development which doesn't crash and is very responsive. The Festival voices seem to be abandoned if I understand correctly. Mbrola isn't bad, but it is non-free and is also not further developed. With that said, I know very little about Voxin or whatever you want to call it except that Oralux probably shouldn't legally be packaging it, which is another reason why I wouldn't buy it. I do know that there is such a thing as Eloquence for Linux which sounds the same as ViaVoice but it isn't. I have used it and the old APH Braille+ ships it. When this was pointed out to me, I didn't believe it, but I tracked down the library on the system. I'm pretty sure it uses an ARM processor, so that won't help much. Also, as I mentioned in a previous post, GW Micro ships a "new" version with Window-Eyes now. I don't know what version it is or what the differences are, but it's supposed to not crash as often and maybe (I don't know) it supports 64-bit Windows since there is a 64-bit Window-Eyes. Therefore, just from my own evidence, I would agree that it's still making money under whatever name you want to call it. By all means I hope they're willing to release the source, but don't hold your breath. On 5/11/2013 11:36 AM, Janina Sajka wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRj1CoAAoJEPrAuJWnLe0yz8YP/i/T3C202GOJBkuh+kOoHXEn p4h1eca6F/H5Z9R4LJeRMwTZ5/Jsf7YKlmuX6tohlKqv8n4ZpWDauZmzOyRqmijF vhN/Xxdbg/BfOnWXUxdNVLBSREcwQItj8Id/EBztxMvHMZ+drjberrFPzI674sge m6Hftv/UGzbi7SssyyZMVO27ZqQkX7qh29Et+r4E8AdKWYQeOkKdo4xYRLJGsw7L ZPqc5kuuXidDC/uZMnw4nwXpC7Qhn6ZzAvJzqJUiE65mrYBJlq4sFazXQ92n0j6J 81Ws9Zkup4VmfB4FnjefSAU8bWXi4EilKKg2BTwiJjNAKTdXBnh9kTInPC02Ls/W gL7/j6rMe7PpCeGzwpyU2rNhZ88Oym379u4vXSJKrbHXfpqS+v/x4pxF3kzixEzE gzIJ1fwhXc00mCT98Q1EZVwLm3JptnzpcFpr+ntuNXq9mwk4Fuv1GZs8L6m6dW6E 45xCG/VFZciZiKlfaxtvI0SL+ORRxM9c7faWjPSmpt8USr2aI4d9kkWxlEXWpx4Y oPYSEm6hOjmymcSS319eGTvbVSXRoDr860BSjZtH/1bF9JYbSGege5akDkorvmYb TMqZju0p2mr9Q0XnwzZw0Q54z3dZedWuK5wWTB1IQPkR5uyuI83HZ4Acnr2JQ4vp nPkrwHqgg1si8X6PIcDb =jfCk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
