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Re: Konqueror Gets Text-to-Speech Synthesis
by dlanx on Monday 16/Jul/2001, @02:28

Hello.
I know, that this may sound harsh, but if a large corporation wanted to make use of mbrola, they should pay a licensing fee to the universities involved. Research is important and very expensive at times.
Concerning private schools, whihc provide help or education to disabled people, I am sure, that the license will bend for such cases, that is only a matter of arrangement. There should be enough room for anyone that truely wants to use this system, to get in touch witht he maintainers and discuss this.

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Re: Konqueror Gets Text-to-Speech Synthesis
by Carbon on Monday 16/Jul/2001, @02:38

Well, that sounds fine. What i was getting at, is if we stared making Mbrola a listed dependency for KDE, then we could run into annoying legal issues, but the quality of Festival is significantly less without Mbrola.

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Re: Konqueror Gets Text-to-Speech Synthesis
by Ralph Clark on Thursday 19/Jul/2001, @22:43

Seriously there is no need for any dependency issue. I played with festival last year (courtesy of one kind individual who had posted SuSE-compatible RPMs) and along with the packaged binaries you could install various back ends including the MBROLA ones as files from a completely separate tarball. There is no static linking or recompilation involved and therefore there is no impact upon open source licences. The author should continue to ship "speaker" with the default speech synthesis but include a configuration option to pull in the MBROLA files (which really do give excellent results, near enough state-of-the-art in fact).

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Re: Konqueror Gets Text-to-Speech Synthesis
by Carbon on Friday 20/Jul/2001, @04:12

>There is no static linking or recompilation involved and therefore there is no impact upon open source licences.

The part that has a non-open-source license is not the mbrola program itself, but the mbrola diphone and lexicon databases, which are neccesary for mbrola to operate. Besides, what do static linking and recompilation have to do with licenses?

>MBROLA files (which really do give excellent results, near enough state-of-the-art in fact).

No argument there, mbrola does sound great!

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