From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from beaver.sibername.com ([64.15.155.210]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I0ccS-0004u1-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:15:36 -0400 Received: from [24.226.69.191] (helo=tenstac) by beaver.sibername.com with smtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1I0cbw-0007WA-MR for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:15:05 -0400 Message-ID: <001001c7b274$081cbcc0$ab00a8c0@tenstac> From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <35319ac693ebb9e59e798621b87cc9c0@www1.mail.volny.cz> Subject: Re: TTSynth Is Available Again Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:16:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - beaver.sibername.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - braille.uwo.ca X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - proficio.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:15:37 -0000 There has never been source code available for ibm viavoice. It is not open source, never has been, never will be. What was provided was a header file to be included in your own source which allowed you to invoke engine functions. See the documentation for ibm tts, it's all spelled out. Hynek Hanke said: It looks to me that the source code is definitely not available except for small helper applications like tts_connector which are useless without the main TTSynth code anyway, am I right? :( Unless things are different than when I use it, and I don't think so, there is a binary executable with an API that you can call from programs. That doesn't make it useless, it just means the engine is not open source. You shouldn't need to mess with the engine anyways. >>From what I have seen, I'm pretty sure IBM didn't own the source for tts, so they can't give it away. It looks to me like it's a license from eloquence, binary license. -- Doug