Before being rebranded as Eric, the voice was known as John .
Several Windows applications purchased licenses for the Ivona engine before the acquisition. If you buy or download these legacy versions, you can install the Eric voice. text to speech eric ivona
The "Eric" voice is currently available as a "Standard" voice on . Before being rebranded as Eric, the voice was known as John
Ivona was a Polish company. Why does that matter? Because Polish phonetics are incredibly complex. To build a good Polish voice, Ivona had to solve problems English vendors ignored: palatalization, nasal vowels, and complex consonant clusters. Before being rebranded as Eric
Eric utilizes a concatenative synthesis approach (in its original form) and later Deep Learning techniques (in the Amazon Polly iteration).