what wouldbe the most blind friendly distribution of linux

Kyle kyle4jesus at gmail.com
Wed Aug 4 15:55:38 UTC 2010


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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