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

Josh Kennedy joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 11:02:30 EST 2023


No they're not the same company I can assure you of that  .

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 10:58 Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> wrote:

> And  you have likewise reached out to code factory?
> It is possible they may be the same company?
> Nothing personal, but given your question about how public licenses work,
> can we be assured that those you have contacted will take this matter
> seriously?
>
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2023, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > No sorry. Jake is quite busy this time of year so I reached out to others
> > who may know the fonix employees who gave the code to us. If there is any
> > progress I'll let you know.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> On Behalf Of Karen
> > Lewellen
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 10:00
> > To: DECtalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> > Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Report of a successful use of dectalk with
> graphical
> > Linux.
> >
> > 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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