According to Fernando Botelho: # Well, since Voxin is no longer for sale, this might be a good time for # us to get started on improving espeak in Spanish.
Googling and looking on the website, I don't think it's no longer for sale, but it's so badly outdated, and takes so much ancient code to run, that it might as well be no longer for sale. It will only get harder and harder to run Voxin as hardware and software become newer. It's like putting that old floppy drive in new computer after new computer until it eventually no longer fits, even with adaptors. Eventually, if you still want to use your old floppy collection, you will need to move the files to something like a flash drive or purchase a USB floppy drive. Voxin is much the same, in that eventually people who are currently making it work will need to improve the more maintained bits of code such as eSpeak, because eventually, all the adapted and ancient libraries in the world won't make it work. The website indicates that it just uses an old C++ library, but there's no way that old library will work in the future, as it's already well over 10 years old. Eventually it will become incompatible with the entire system bit by bit. I said all that to say that Voxin may still be for sale, but it's much more profitable for the community to work to improve eSpeak, SVox Pico, Festival, Flite or any of the other freedom synthesizers available with source code that can be freely modified and improved than it will ever be to keep trying and trying to make Voxin or any other packaged version of this speech synthesizer run just a little longer. ~Kyle http:/kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie" -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
