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Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

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deloptes wrote:

> It resonates a lot - as I wrote thesis on dialogue systems and I got very
> disappointed by the facts I came across. IMO all technologies that were
> financed with public money (i.e. DARPA) should be made publicly available.
> In fact AFAIK there is only one engine (the mother of all) that was
> developed by Phillips and IBM - who knows who owns the pattents now ... I
> would be surprised if Google, Microsoft and Amazon funded research
> themselves.
> 
> In fact there was a Linux version of IBMs ViaVoice but was so bad and was
> killed later around 2005. We are in THE MIDDLE AGES right now. Only people
> got too stupid to understand.
> 
> I will no subscribed because it does not make any sense to request
> something from 2002 - you/we should request everything that was publicly
> funded to be available/benefitting the public or revolt.

I am sorry I was speaking about STT which is much more complicated. The TTS
(festival) has its roots also in publicly funded projects and programs and
had the same faith as the STTs. It is a shame what happened.

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help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source. Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2021-05-17 22:10 +0200
  Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source. deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 22:50 +0200
    Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source. deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 23:50 +0200
    Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source. Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2021-05-18 20:30 +0200
      Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source. Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2021-05-19 00:00 +0200
        Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source. rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-05-19 01:40 +0200
          Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source. Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2021-05-19 02:10 +0200
            Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source. rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-05-19 04:20 +0200
          Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source. deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-19 07:40 +0200
        Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source. deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-19 07:50 +0200

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