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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=RU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Unfortunately, eSpeak is distributed under the viral copyleft GPL V3 license.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>This means that it cannot be used in conjunction with proprietary code, but there are proprietary components in my project.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>eSpeak can be used as an external component, but then there is less control over it. In particular, it will not be possible to include it in the package. This is only acceptable for NVDA, where there is already a built-in eSpeak.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>A similar problem with the open source RHVoice synthesizer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>In addition to DECtalk, I also researched the possibility of licensing SoftVoice and Eloquence synthesizers, but this also has not worked out yet. SoftVoice copyright holders are also unresponsive, and finding an Eloquence licensor has proven difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>There is a PICO TTS free synthesizer, but its speech at high speed is not as intelligible as I would like.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>There is also a public domain Klatt synthesizer, but it is of too low quality.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>MBROLA and Festeval/Flite synthesizers are too large and clumsy, and also not intelligible enough at high speech speeds.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>If you can recommend any other compact English synthesizer that I have not named, then I would be grateful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>My synthesizer will have several built-in robotic voices for different languages with automatic voice switching, as well as support for connecting external voices for other languages or for high speech quality from the system (MS SAPI5, Android, etc.). The synthesizer will be supplied for NVDA, SAPI5 and Android Speech TTS (in the future, it is possible for macOS and Linux in a version compatible with the corresponding API).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I am currently looking for a compact robotic voice for English to embed it as the default voice for Latin script.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The synthesizer I am developing is geared towards blind professionals working with different languages. Voices will automatically switch based on script (alphabet) and language markup, for example, on web pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>My project is non-commercial, but I am ready to buy an embedded license for my own money, if the price is reasonable for my personal budget. However, so far I cannot even establish contact with the copyright holders of the necessary technologies in order to find out the licensing conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>In addition, the situation is complicated by the fact that I am not from the USA. I can draw up contracts only through a non-profit organization in another country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Dectalk <dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Devin Prater<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 30, 2021 4:06 PM<br><b>To:</b> DECtalk <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DECtalk] DECtalk TTS licensing<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I mean, there is ESpeak. <br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Devin Prater<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:r.d.t.prater@gmail.com" target="_blank">r.d.t.prater@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>gemini://tilde.pink/~devinprater/<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 12:02 PM Nikita <<a href="mailto:nikitamailings@yandex.com">nikitamailings@yandex.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Hello everybody.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>I am looking for an opportunity to license DECtalk software technology to develop a cross-platform multilingual speech synthesizer compatible with screen readers. First of all, on Windows and Android, and in the future, possibly Linux and macOS.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Unfortunately, I ran into the problem of being unable to contact the copyright holders of DECtalk.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>SpeechFX, Inc. website does not work (<a href="http://speechfxinc.com" target="_blank">speechfxinc.com</a>), and I am not receiving a response to message sent to the email that was previously indicated on this site (<a href="mailto:sales@speechfxinc.com" target="_blank">sales@speechfxinc.com</a>).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>I tried to contact Roger Dudley personally, who is the CEO of SpeechFX, but his addresses, which I discovered in the public sources, no longer exist.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>I know that there is an available software implementation of DECtalk and even its source code is publicly available, but these are all illegal versions. </span>I want to officially license DECtalk for my non-commercial project.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I will be very grateful if someone can suggest how else I can contact the copyright holders of DECtalk.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>If you have any information, but you do not want to publish it publicly, then you can write to me directly at <a href="mailto:nikitamailings@yandex.com" target="_blank">nikitamailings@yandex.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Best regards, Nikita.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Dectalk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><a href="https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk" target="_blank">https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>