Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-18 Thread deloptes
Karen Lewellen wrote: > Clearly sent privately by mistake. you are stupid asshole - I explicitly said I post in private

Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-18 Thread deloptes
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Disregarding someone's request for privacy is rather disrespectful. > > When that happens for me, I reply with something that says, ~"keep it on > the list, please" Thank you

Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-18 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 08:00:27 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > For me personally, I have been through too many sex assault's I am sorry to hear that.

Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
Oh I can respect your stance, even if I do not fully resonate. If one wants privacy, best to say so, at the top, not several pages down. For me personally, I have been through too many sex assault's not to insure my request not to be contacted off list gets ignored, even if I am the only p

Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-18 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 05:53:19 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > Clearly sent privately by mistake. ... > > I send this in private, because of my private opinion here. I would > > prefer we discuss this in private and perhaps you can convince me that > > it is worth the effort. I do not know this too

Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
Clearly sent privately by mistake. In context a bit. On Tue, 18 May 2021, deloptes wrote: No - they start and run it until government=tax payers money flows in Really? Can you please point me to governmental funded Linux projects for any disability population? I will share your list with t

Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi again, While your point about publicly funded efforts may be a fine one, locating those owners now presents a challenge. On the one hand companies behind solid speech synthesis, like digital equipment corporation who branded the superior dec-talk speech have themselves sold items to others.

Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-17 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote: > It resonates a lot - as I wrote thesis on dialogue systems and I got very > disappointed by the facts I came across. IMO all technologies that were > financed with public money (i.e. DARPA) should be made publicly available. > In fact AFAIK there is only one engine (the mother of

Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-17 Thread deloptes
Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi everyone, > Sharing because while tts is indeed  part of adaptive technology for many, > and Linux default speech synthesis is not always of the best quality, the > use of tts across devices serving the general public is  becoming more > extensive as well. > There is an

help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-17 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi everyone, Sharing because while tts is indeed part of adaptive technology for many, and Linux default speech synthesis is not always of the best quality, the use of tts across devices serving the general public is becoming more extensive as well. There is an effort at change.org asking Mic