Comment 1 by briang1 on 2015-08-07 06:30

I do not think this is a good idea. I think, although many may find the current choice not ideal, it can be understood in many languages and dialects. If I were to change anything I'd suggest making the fact that other choices exist is put forward to new users as part of the first run system.
After r all, those with experience of Eloquence or indeed any other voices, by implication, have used a screenreader before and will be familiar with the fact that one can get free or purcasable other synths and voices, so the fact that its not whatever their favourite was is always going to be true for some users.
I don't like Eloquence and find it hard to understand, so no matter what you do somebody will not like it.
I might just as well suggest that that Quincy is used as default, but I'would not want that to be the case. No I think a more obvious pushtoward how to alter the voice, for new users is the best approach myself.

@jcsteh @michaelDCurran Could you please briefly address this request and subsequently close this ticket?

@michaelDCurran, do you think making Edward the default for Espeak instead of Max is a good idea?

Related to #8177 and #8176

This affects only Windows 8.1 users, since in Windows 10 and higher the default voice is one core.
cc: @gerald-hartig maybe you can decide whether this needs attention or should we close it as not planned? I guess the user base of Windows 8.1 is very very low nowadays.

If this only affects windows 8.1 users, then I think given that (A) Windows 8.1 reached end of life in Jan 2023, (B) less than 2% of our users are running windows 8.1, and (C) there's been very little activity on this issue in the 9 years since it was raised, we can close this issue as stale.