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

[Josh Kennedy]

Too bad it doesn't run on Android yet. Well at least we have espeak with
all of its new variants such as Glenn and wave and many others now.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 00:01 Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> wrote:

> because that requires permission.
> why not get that permission from the individuals providing the source
> code?
> Anyone adding a general public license must have the right to do as much.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2023, Josh Kennedy wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> 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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