<div dir="ltr">yes, they are commercial products, windows, android, IOS. But what Brian Blazie means is... Lets say for example, you started a commercial company called Karen LuEllen incorporated. You want to develop your own product, your own noteTaker, a for-profit operating system, or a new talking microwave. You want to use decTalk in that product. You want to sell that product with decTalk incorporated into it. You would have to license decTalk in order to do that. Now lets say you are a screen reader user. You like using NVDA, Jaws, whatever. You enjoy using the decTalk voice because you like how it sounds, it is your favorite voice and so on. So you download it and start using it. This is ok. You are not making a new product, you are simply using decTalk for your own personal enjoyment. Its like for example, I can go to a park somewhere and ride on the swings if I wanted to. The swings are a commercial product, built by someone, some company. So if I wanted to make my own park with playground equipment, using that company's product, but making it a different color to stand out from a park in another town, I would have to buy from the original manufacturer of the equipment and maybe ask them if I could change the color. <div>Now with decTalk, nobody is getting rich off of it. People these days prefer their amazon speaker voices and their natural neural AI and very human sounding unit selection voices. Dennis Klatt's relative may make some money from commercial decTalk licenses, but I doubt it will be an income you could live off of. decTalk is 40 or so years old, and the only people who are still into it are as far as I know, blind and disabled folks.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 10:43 PM Karen Lewellen <<a href="mailto:klewellen@shellworld.net">klewellen@shellworld.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Android is a commercial product like IOS is a commercial product.<br>
Speaking personally, that might not be wise, unless it will never see <br>
the light of day even discussions.<br>
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On Sat, 3 Feb 2024, Brandon Misch wrote:<br>
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> my question is since Blazie said that we could use it for personal<br>
> use, does that mean that if someone knew how to, they could compile it<br>
> to work on something like android or anything else or would that still<br>
> be an issue. It seems like for personal use, it shouldn't be but<br>
> thought i would ask anyway.<br>
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> On 2/3/24, Josh Kennedy <<a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com" target="_blank">joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Human Voice LLC. Owned by one of Dennis Klatt's grandchildren.<br>
>> Sent from my iPhone<br>
>><br>
>>> On Feb 3, 2024, at 19:26, Jason J.G. White <<a href="mailto:jason@jasonjgw.net" target="_blank">jason@jasonjgw.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
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>>>> On 3/2/24 17:59, Karen Lewellen wrote:<br>
>>>> Do you actually know the name of the new company in reference here?<br>
>>>> I ask because I have a nonprofit organization tax insentive offer that<br>
>>>> might allow for a few licences.<br>
>>> I believe it's the Human Voice, LLC company that Josh mentioned.<br>
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