Nothing is wrong with Alex, I like it very much too. It's a matter of taste I guess.
I think I prefer Eloquence because it sounds like a pure generated voice with good inflections for different intonations. I never got tired of listening to Roco first, and then Read. (I might be misspelling their voice names though…) For some reason, I have never been compelled to read large chunks of texts with any built in Mac OS voices… I love the user experience with Alex, but get quickly tired when it comes to listening to documents. Please, for those who are interested in having a little skin in the game, send me an email directly off list. If licensing is affordable for the end user, , I would be happy to consider a small compensation plan to pay back the "investors", but I think the project should remain non-profit. If your opinion says otherwise though, we can reconsider it all for sure. Moderators, I apologize if this may be drifting away from the original purpose of the list. Let me know and I can move this elsewhere. I do not intend to conduct the management of the project through the list, obviously. :) Cheers, Emrah On Jan 9, 2012, at 4:13 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > Hi, > > What’s wrong with Alex? I find him vastly superior to eloquence, actually. > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Holton > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 7:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Mac OS port of IBM Viavoice TTS, otherwise known as ETI Eloquence > > Count me in. > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emrah > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 7:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Mac OS port of IBM Viavoice TTS, otherwise known as ETI Eloquence > > Hey all, > > Glad to hear that I am not alone in my frustration. > > Nuance Communications owns ETI Eloquence, but rare are the people over there > who know about its existence. > > I will try and get hold of a Nuance developer to discuss SDK options and > licensing, and revert back to you with a digest of my phone calls and email > correspondence. > If Apple refuses to integrate Eloquence, I am thinking we could start a > little fund raising and put a budget together to hire someone to work on an > independent port. > > What do you think? > > E > -- > Emrah > > “In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.” > Albert Einstein > > On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:28 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > > > Yes, I requested such a thing many, many moons ago. > > I don’t think it is going to happen. If we, as low-vision Zoom users, cannot > convince Apple to allow us to truly customize basic color schemes instead of > the “one-size-fits-all” reverse color technique, I doubt if they are going to > implement what they must consider to be an inferior TTS. > > I could be wrong or at least, I wish I were. (Smile). > > Mark > > > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Blake Sinnett > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 8:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Mac OS port of IBM Viavoice TTS, otherwise known as ETI Eloquence > > Has anyone written to Apple accessibility about this? I did a long time ago > about getting it on the iPhone. > > > Subject: Re: Mac OS port of IBM Viavoice TTS, otherwise known as ETI > > Eloquence > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 20:33:58 -0800 > > To: [email protected] > > > > I don't know about the legal issues but I can tell you that I would love > > nothing more than to enjoy Eloquence on my Mac and, for that matter, my > > iPhone. > > > > Mark > > On Jan 8, 2012, at 6:06 AM, Emrah wrote: > > > > > Hi listers, > > > > > > I hope this message does not offend anybody allergic to Windows. > > > > > > The version of ETI Eloquence bundled with Jaws on Windows has always been > > > my favorite voice synthesizer. I used to be able to listen (read) > > > thousands and thousands of pages without ever getting tired of it. The > > > intonations were amazingly good and compared to most of the TTS out > > > there, it knew how to tone the exclamations. > > > > > > Anyway, I am writing to inquire if any of you have tried to run Eloquence > > > on your Mac? > > > Some folks "ported" it to Linux. http://voxin.oralux.net > > > > > > Any idea f something similar exists on Mac? > > > > > > I am sure it could be done… > > > > > > All the best, > > > E > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "MacVisionaries" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email > > > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "MacVisionaries" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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