The developers have never been very open to the idea, but I think that's mostly 
because the Mac API for making a voice is complex. I've given it a try, a 
couple times, and didn't get far because I don't know enough about the 
mechanics of speech synthesis.
On Aug 2, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
> I've been wondering that since i got my mac and never got any answer on that.
> Very disappointing.
> /A
> 2 aug 2014 kl. 18:53 skrev Devin Prater <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Hi all. As a long-time user of both Windows and the mac, I keep wondering 
>> why eSpeak hasn't been ported to work with voiceover and the mac speech API. 
>> If Eloquence can be ported, why on earth can't eSpeak, being open source and 
>> a native linux program, be ported? Is Eloquence just that good, and mac 
>> users so into windows that Eloquence, a native windows app, just has to b 
>> ported, in a rather weird form with only one voice and a few weird bugs, 
>> rather than eSpeak, with its many languages, amazing pronounciation and 
>> configurability? And I don't want just a "type text and push that there play 
>> button and hear it talk" little toy app. I want it to be selectable in the 
>> VO speech pane of the utility, as a system voice, and usable in the say 
>> fuction of the terminal. Is that really,  really too much to ask for of an 
>> open source program? If so, then open source is just as unreliable as 
>> regular freeware.
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