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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My resolution: 2025 will be the year I find a way to get eloquence out of all my workflows.
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Matt Campbell @matt@toot.cafe
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@fastfinge Why? Do you not like Eloquence, or do you feel you need to let go of it because, at least on PC, it's basically dead?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@matt I love eloquence, and depend on it for my productivity. But now that codefactory eloquence is abandoned, I won't be able to use it with the next NVDA Update. And there is no way work is approving IBMTTS or Threshhold or any of the other hacky solutions. There's also talk of moving us to ARM laptops, where even those solutions won't run. So I have to start trying to move away while I can still take it slow.
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Matt Campbell @matt@toot.cafe
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@fastfinge I don't see why those solutions wouldn't work on ARM laptops. Windows on ARM can still emulate x86.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@matt Because NVDA is native ARM. So the Addon can't load the eloquence DLL files. I've tried it on an ARM virtual machine on mac. No go. I guess they'd have to do some kind of RPC the way the Sonata neural voices handle it.
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Matt Campbell @matt@toot.cafe
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@fastfinge Oh wow, I thought the main NVDA process was still x86 32-bit.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@matt It's still X86 32-bit on X86/X64. But my understanding was that running on the Surface RT laptops and getting listed in the Microsoft Store required them to switch over to ARM Python, because the early RT laptops that only ran Windows Store apps didn't support emulation.
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