I think open sourcing Eloquence is something that should have been done a
long time ago. Unfortunately I think this petition misses the target. Last I
heard ETI-Eloquence is owned by Nuance so they might be the company to
petition. This thing has changed hands so often though so maybe this is no
longer the case?
The change.org site also doesn't seem to let you sign the petition with
lynx, a real problem for some people.
On Mon, 17 May 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Hi folks,
There is a petition at change.org with the aim of asking Microsoft to make
eloquence tts engine open source.
https://www.change.org/p/microsoft-open-source-eti-eloquence
Not the best in a lower graphics environment, but the positive benefits both
for some finding default Linux speech a problem, and expanding Linux devices
with quality tts might be quite expansive.
Please share if motivated,
Karen
