[DECtalk] DECtalk TTS licensing

Devin Prater r.d.t.prater at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 09:06:04 EDT 2021


I mean, there is ESpeak.
Devin Prater
r.d.t.prater at gmail.com
gemini://tilde.pink/~devinprater/



On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 12:02 PM Nikita <nikitamailings at yandex.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody.
>
> I am looking for an opportunity to license DECtalk software technology to
> develop a cross-platform multilingual speech synthesizer compatible with
> screen readers. First of all, on Windows and Android, and in the future,
> possibly Linux and macOS.
>
> Unfortunately, I ran into the problem of being unable to contact the
> copyright holders of DECtalk.
>
> SpeechFX, Inc. website does not work (speechfxinc.com), and I am not
> receiving a response to message sent to the email that was previously
> indicated on this site (sales at speechfxinc.com).
>
> I tried to contact Roger Dudley personally, who is the CEO of SpeechFX,
> but his addresses, which I discovered in the public sources, no longer
> exist.
>
> I know that there is an available software implementation of DECtalk and
> even its source code is publicly available, but these are all illegal
> versions. I want to officially license DECtalk for my non-commercial
> project.
>
> I will be very grateful if someone can suggest how else I can contact the
> copyright holders of DECtalk.
>
> If you have any information, but you do not want to publish it publicly,
> then you can write to me directly at nikitamailings at yandex.com
>
> Best regards, Nikita.
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