<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That's not even the only problem with Espeak. The other serious issue which makes it impossible to use for many projects is that it's GPL licensed. So even if you were to fork it, made a much better sounding version on its basis, the GPL license forces you to open-source all of your work as well which makes it almost impossible to use for anything commercial. So in the case of using it with a bluetooth headset or any other hardware even if you got Espeak going on it, you'd have to also completely open-source all the firmware for the device which could open you up to a lot of serious problems.<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>THat being said, I too would love to hear what you've been working on. ☺️</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Jun 2021, at 17:44, Jake McMahan <<a href="mailto:mcmahan.jake@gmail.com" class="">mcmahan.jake@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> What Don is saying josh is that he works with different hardware, some that may not have the specs that would enable much room for anything spectacular. However, I myself am interested in this type of thing and would love to hear samples or know more about it. Point here is, Don considers hardware that would not normally bost a TTS engine if I’m correct. I don’t think his specialty is writing software for the windows environment. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Sent from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Mail</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for Windows 10</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: none; padding: 0in;" class=""><b class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:Text_to_Speech@gmx.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Don</a><br class=""><b class="">Sent:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:19 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [DECtalk] question about Kurzweil 1000 voices</div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On 6/16/2021 7:42 AM, Josh Kennedy wrote:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">> Why write your own tts, when you can just fork and make your own version of</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">> Espeak? And make it talk the exact way you want?</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Perhaps you missed this:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"(I am dealing with an extremely "resource constrained" environment)"</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Don't think "PC". Think more along the lines of "bluetooth earpiece"...</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">JUST the earpiece!</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Dectalk mailing list</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Dectalk mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>