In Michael Curran's speech at this year's NFB convention, he mentioned 
that NV access is working on a synthesizer for people who have 
difficulties with Espeak and who want something more like Dectalk or 
eloquence.  I just checked their Twitter feed and saw they posted a link 
to the latest version at
http://t.co/J9mfthJhmJ
This is an add-on which, once installed, will show up in the list of 
synthesizers as NV Speech Player.
I'm not sure what to think about it.  It is somewhat reminiscent of 
Eloquence and Dectalk but I'm not sure that people who hate ESpeak will 
find the voice much more appealing.  Then again, we have to consider 
that this is not the final version of the synth but it's still in beta 
or maybe even in an alpha state.  Also, it has a lot of extra controls 
in the voice settings dialog which can allow you to fine tune the voices 
and I'm sure the developers will be working on this as well.


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