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

Karen Lewellen klewellen at shellworld.net
Wed Feb 22 09:59:44 EST 2023


And, it is not likely to join android until the legal barriers are 
removed. Any progress on that front?



On Wed, 22 Feb 2023, Josh Kennedy wrote:

> 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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