Shower thought: I wonder if any #blind kids today are growing up on espeak the way we grew up on eloquence? Is there a future where espeak is out of date and ancient, and people are clinging to it with the desperation people today cling to eloquence and dectalk? Honestly y'all, espeak read isn't that bad. I just wish espeak was usable on IOS; the available app is old and littered with bugs. #a11y#screenreader#accessibility
@fastfinge eSpeak will never be out-of-date and hard to run in the same way Eloquence is, because eSpeak is open-source and can continue to be ported forward, legally (unlike leaked DECtalk), by anyone who cares to.
@matt@fastfinge Mine is currently set to Mike. I haven't found a voice I can definitively say 'Yeah that's the one for me' but I'd like to do that, so that if I ever had to use it full-time, I had the thing configured just the way I need it to be.
