Re: Code Factory voices
@Cmerri: No, Eloquence was not even made by IBM. IT was made by Eloquent Technologies, Incorporated, IBM adopted the speech for use in their Viavoice product. Also, Nuance technically owns eci.dll, if you're talking about the one from JAWS. It was never actually legal for anyone to use the dll outside of JAWS, the only reason it was so accepted in the first place is that there really was no legitimate solution for Eloquence for NVDA, but now there is. Like I said, I have legitimate access to an Eloquence that can be used with NVDA through my copy of Kurzweil1000, the only software package I'm aware of that still actively carries the openly-usable sapi4 Eloquence. MOst of you will more than likely not be using that package though as it's quite pricy.
At any rate, stupid as it may be Nuance does own the rights to the library so they can do whatever they want with it, and there will be no one to stop them because competition is next to none in the text to speech industry if we aren't counting in the virtual assistant's race to the top, so if you're using Eloquence through an unofficial means you aren't within your rights to say hey look there's this perfect solution that totally works and it won't cost you a dime. Technically possible? Yes. Legal? No.
By that same token I do wonder how long Nuance can technically keep their hold on the Eloquence library seeming as though they don't want to update the legacy code. Eloquence has been one of JAWS's biggest selling points for the past decade and a half now, and once Windows makes the switch to Arm 64bit, it may be the end of that era. Then again, it may be the end of JAWS given all the legacy code that still powers the thing to this day.
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