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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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