[DECtalk] I can't believe the Sapi Eloquence is illegal

[Brandon]

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> On Apr 15, 2014, at 3:11 PM, "Alex H." <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I found Orpheus and my tts options are sort of moving to that. It's
> cheap and goes super fast and is snappy. Sapi4/5 support so it'll
> support everything.
> 
> That said, what I'd want, not because it would be particularly good or
> anything, but just to say it exists is a FonixTalk addon for NVDA, or
> a SAPI of it. Ironically if you do some heavy voice tweaking FonixTalk
> is not that terrible for a slower reading voice. It's no DECtalk 4.3,
> but well, nothing else really is anyway.
> 
> 
> Alex
> 
>> On 4/14/14, Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater at gmail.com> wrote:
>> They haven't even contributed to the Eloquence code.
>> 
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>> 
>>> On Apr 14, 2014, at 5:55, jake mcmahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Ok, let's set something straight here.  Nuance is one of those major
>>> companies that think they can control just about anything when it comes to
>>> synths.  They don't care about the end-user, they don't care about easy
>>> access.  All they consist of, are people who want to say they've written
>>> this valuable program, when they of course didn't.  Examples include
>>> dragon which was written by L&h, eloquence of course, by speech works, and
>>> loquendo tts for that matter.  All they're doing, is taking ownership of a
>>> product and saying who can or cannot use it.  Most, if not all of their
>>> voices, they didn't make.  For example Tom and Jill, by speechworks.  I
>>> will say this one last time.  Nuances main goal, is to show off their
>>> grand text to speech, and just hold it in front of your face because they
>>> know you can't get it.  I mean, look what they've done to eloquence.  Just
>>> thought I may throw my 2 cents in.
>>>> On 4/14/2014 9:09 PM, Doris and Chris wrote:
>>>> if you install the old ibm homepagereader demo ibm via voice stays
>>>> behind. it does not expire and sounds like eloquence ...
>>>> 
>>>> Doris
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> At 05:22 PM 4/13/2014 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>> Because Nuance says so.
>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Apr 13, 2014, at 15:52, Erick <erickjeffrey11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I wish I could use the Sapi Eloquence  right now, but it turns out
>>>>>> it's illegal. why is this? It should be legal.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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