[DECtalk] Report of a successful use of dectalk with graphical Linux.

[Josh Kennedy]

Well why not just go on to its GitHub page and remove all the licenses and
just replace them with the general public license?

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 23:17 Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> wrote:

> Hi members,
> Sharing this post from the blind Linux users group.  Hope it generates a
> smile.
>
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:59:35 -0500
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: What a find! DECTalk!
>
> I'm happy to be in the fediverse right now. Looking through my timeline, I
> just
> found a link to a Github repository that has DECTalk source code,
> apparently
> released by some of the original DECTalk developers.
>
> https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk
>
> The LICENSE file still has scary words like "proprietary" and
> "confidential"
> and "all rights reserved," but the source builds and works. I have it
> working
> in speech-dispatcher with Orca as I write this.
>
>
> Note that this is the DECTalk software version 4.x, the one that sounds
> just
> like the DECTalk Express from the 1990's, so anyone who needs hardware
> speech
> should feel right at home with this. No, this is not the 5.x DECTalk that
> really sounds like crap. Have fun and enjoy, and I do hope they fix this
> license soon. It would be good to have another truly free speech
> synthesizer to
> play with, and this is definitely a huge step in that direction.
>
> ~ Kyle
>
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