[DECtalk] concerns about sapi voices on grossgang.com

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

Is there any way to adapt a SAPI4 voice to work under SAPI5? I'd love to 
use Eloquence, L&H, etc. with Sapi5 programs, but I assume they're Sapi4.
Jayson

On 1/5/2014 4:24 AM, Piotr Machacz wrote:
> This is now in the same league as the Sapi5 real speak voices that were bundled with JAWS 8 and 9. This version of Eloquence is the one that came bundled with Window-eyes,, all the way to version 7 when they switched to a direct driver. So, I really don’t think this is much of a problem.
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> On 04 Jan 2014, at 11:26 pm, brandon T <brandongold98 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Looking through the section on grossgang.com in the folder
>> dectalk\sapi voices, I'm a bit concerned about the Eloquence and
>> ViaVoice entries. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost certain that
>> these voices are illegal. For NVDA users, including myself, it would
>> probably make NVDA users think it's ok to run eloquence legally. But
>> there's a blog post on the NVDA site stating that this is illegal. So
>> are these actually legal copies that can be used with NVDA no problem?
>> Or were they taken out of something?
>>
>> I just don't want to see us get in trouble because of this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brandon
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