[DECtalk] Software DECtalk availability (was Re: using dectalk with orca in ubuntu)
Karen Lewellen
klewellen at shellworld.net
Sat Feb 3 17:59:48 EST 2024
Jason,
Do you actually know the name of the new company in reference here?
I ask because I have a nonprofit organization tax insentive offer that
might allow for a few licences.
Kare
On Sat, 3 Feb 2024, Jason J.G. White via Dectalk wrote:
> Thank you, Josh. I think Mr. Blazie is a credible source, and of course, his
> company would have been in communication with the new DECtalk owner for
> commercial licencing reasons.
>
> In the recent past, and perhaps currently, DECtalk has been receiving free
> maintenance and enhancement from a community of people who evidently have the
> necessary expertise. It will be interesting to find out whether the new
> company decides to let that work continue. If they're planning to allow it to
> be downloaded for certain non-commercial uses, then it may indeed be in their
> interests to leave it open to bug reports and code contributions. Of course,
> they may adopt an entirely different strategy.
>
> I am interested in contributing bug reports, at least, and if I could fix any
> of the issues (such as mispronunciations), then I would contribute those
> changes too.
>
> Any significant, long-term maintenance will require people with the right
> expertise, some of whom have obviously contributed a lot of work to it in
> recent years. My understanding is that any non-trivial work on it would
> require a specialized academic background in computer science, software
> engineering, computational linguistics and digital signal processing, as well
> as considerable software development experience. I don't have any of that
> background.
>
> If you're interested in reading more, I found this paper on DECtalk to be
> informative.
>
> ftp://eddie.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/DEC/DTJ/DTJK01/DTJK01PF.PDF
>
> On 3/2/24 15:49, Josh Kennedy wrote:
>> Brian Blazie said that the new owners of dectalk said that we blind people
>> can use it as long as it is for our own personal useand is not used in a
>> commercial product. If you want to use it in a commercial product, you have
>> to license it. but we are allowed to use it for free for our own personal
>> use Brian Blazie of Blazie Engineering told me this.
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Feb 3, 2024, at 10:45, Jason J.G. White via Dectalk
>> > <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > > On 3/2/24 10:18, Bryan Mckinnish wrote:
>> > > How can I get dectalk to work with orca in ubuntu mate?
>> > >
>> > > Also, what github address would I have to use to get it if it's
>> > > prebuilt?
>> > >
>> > Actually, I wouldn't download it from anywhere at the moment. There is
>> > apparently a new company with rights to DECtalk now, so the best
>> > strategy would be to wait a while until we find out officially about its
>> > availability to blind users of Linux. The matter was recently raised on
>> > the Orca mailing list.
>> >
>> > If I were making the decision today, I wouldn't download anything.
>> >
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