Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org> writes:
> Boris Daix <Boris.Daix@insa-lyon.fr> writes:
>
>> Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org> writes:
>>
>>> Just in case you wonder why your viavoice suddenly segfaults:
>>> It seems that the latest upgrade to glibc 2.3.2 is responsible for this.
>>> I do not have any details yet, and I am unsure if I really want to
>>> investigate this issue.
>>
>> Anyway, is the source code available ?
>
> It never was.
>
>> Where does it live now ?
>
> There is no official location you can download it from. All the existing
> installations I know of were done some years ago.
>
>> I'm looking for stuff about ViaVoice, for the manual -- but my last
>> feeling was "ViaVoice is locked-in". Am I wrong ?
> No. It is not even locked-in, it is also discontinued by IBM.
So, obviously, I'll keep on omitting it everywhere...
> So, even if one would have some official download location to grab it from,
> the license it originally shipped with had a time-limitation, IIRC.
>
> It is sad to see such a good product die like this, after all, none
> of the currently existing commercial speech synthesizers for Linux
> do match ViaVoice's responsiveness and voice clarity, IMHO.
So I won't even taste it. Does IBM explain why they gave it up, and
why they couldn't offer the source to, let's say, SPI Inc. or
whatever ? Should we ask for it, in the name of debian-a11y-related
people ?
--
Boris Daix
"In Freedom We Trust" (IFWT)
(C) 2003 by Boris Daix ;-)
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