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

Josh Kennedy joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 08:08:25 EST 2023


I am talking about espeak ng . Specifically all of the new variants such as
Glenn and wave and Bobby and Betty and many others based on Klatt 6

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 00:52 mattias <mjonsson1986 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Josh wich espeak do you meen?
>
> We have 2
>
> One espeak-ng
>
> And the older from kentuar something
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> *Från: *Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com>
> *Skickat: *den 22 februari 2023 06:17
> *Till: *DECtalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> *Ämne: *Re: [DECtalk] Report of a successful use of dectalk with
> graphical Linux.
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> 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.
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> 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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