In short: Unlikely. Amazon has moved entirely to neural TTS (Polly). Maintaining the old concatenative synthesis system (which Eric used) is not commercially viable. However, there is a slim chance that Amazon might release a "classic" voice pack as a novelty—but no announcements exist.
If you love Eric’s style, your best bet is to test Amazon Polly’s "Brian" or fine-tune a custom ElevenLabs voice to sound similar. Some hobbyists have even trained AI replicas of Eric (though this raises serious legal red flags).
If you listen to Ivona's Eric today, he sounds incredibly good for his era, but he betrays his age in subtle ways.
What is Ivona Eric Text-to-Speech?
Ivona Eric TTS is a synthetic voice that converts written text into spoken words. It's designed to produce high-quality, natural-sounding speech that's close to human speech.
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How to Use Ivona Eric Text-to-Speech
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Many blind and low-vision users became accustomed to Eric through screen readers like Ivona MiniReader (a Windows app) and third-party Android TTS engines. Even after official support ended, some users preserved offline copies of Eric’s voice data.
Before its discontinuation, Ivona Eric was widely adopted across various platforms: