Yes, but eSpeak's language support is better than any other speech system out there today. Not even Vocalizer has an Esperanto voice.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 8, 2015, at 10:21 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, voices have come along way. That is precisely why I will never ever use > e-speak. Back in the 1980s, that sounded better than espeak. that I know it's > a personal preference deal. Bute-speak for reading for pleasure? Not in this > lifetime. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Oct 8, 2015, at 7:58 PM, Devin Prater <r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Well, I don't think the Ivona voices were all that good anyways. Just my >> oppinion, but speech synthesis has gone a ways, and has less wildly varying >> entonation. But sure, Voicedream may lose some voices, but they still have >> Acapella Sharan up their sleeve, and could easily add eSpeak and other >> voices to compensate. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Oct 7, 2015, at 2:35 AM, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all. I've tried Ivona's voices for Windows and therefore I'm on their >>> newsletter. I just got an email from them. It sounds like they might be >>> folding. I'll paste an excerpt of the email below but one has to wonder. >>> Will Voice Dream be affected? 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