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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">don have you writed your own tts?<br>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">Den 16 juni 2021 04:06:08 skrev Don <Text_to_Speech@GMX.com>:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">On 6/15/2021 6:43 PM, Blake Roberts via Dectalk wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">You made some great points regarding trials. It makes sense that I could extend<br>
a trial period by instaling software on a different computer at some future time.<br>
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Yes. If the owner of the product wanted to prohibit this, they would do<br>
something like give you a "key" -- tied to your particular PC and the time<br>
at wish it was issued (i.e., "expire 30 days from this date").</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">But, then I could have a friend request a trial license for HIS computer<br>
and work around the terms that way.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">You can argue that reinstalling -- on a clean windows machine (even if it<br>
is the same old machine with a wiped disk) -- is TECHNICALLY within the<br>
limits of the license. If you run VMs, this has obvious ways of bending<br>
the rules -- perhaps a bit too much?</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">And, if I really *am* trying to compare one product to another, then<br>
is the trial period sufficiently long for me to make a meaningful<br>
comparison?</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">I spent a great deal of time evaluating synthesizers before writing mine.<br>
It's not the sort of thing you can do in a day -- or a month! It's not like<br>
checking to see which calculator gives you the correct answer in the<br>
least amount of time. Or, has the most "functions".</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">One synthesizer may pronounce:<br>
"The polish maid was asked to polish the silverware"<br>
while another doesn't. How do I know which test cases to evaluate<br>
until I hear ONE of the synthesizers screw up on something that<br>
I possibly hadn't tested on the others.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">So, now you have to go back and try THIS on each of THOSE.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">Yes, I am interested in OCR which has speech output. I own a license/serial<br>
umber for a slightly old version of Abbyy FineReader which functions on Windows<br>
10. However, I prefer using OCR which can talk on its own (self-voicing with no<br>
screen reader required).</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">Hmm, I have two old OpenBook versions sitting in a shipping box. OB version 8<br>
was not compatible with Windows 10 when I updated my computer from Windows 7<br>
some years ago. After Kurzweil 1000 evaluation period is near expiration, I<br>
might get the most recent OpenBook CD I possess and see if the OpenBook disk<br>
(and associated serioal number) will work on current version of Windows 10.<br>
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You might also try running OpenBook in a Windows 7 virtual machine.<br>
This isn't exactly as convenient as running it directly on W10 but<br>
can likely give you that original functionality.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">[Sorry, I don't run W10 so can't help, there. But, I imagine there<br>
is a "compatibility mode" that can be set up like XP mode under W7]</p>
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