Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > He was asking about free software tts. DEC Talk isn't free. The only > other free that I am aware of is Free TTS: > > http://freetts.sf.net Oh yeah, free as in "Free for you if you control the Java license". And nowadays, they even managed to port Sphinx over to Java. I really really hate Sun for these obvious strategic moves. If Java were truly free, no one would object. But thats how market share aquisation goes it seems. Look at what we got: FreeTTS, Sphinx and for OpenOffice, we need the Java Access Bridge. That is 3 major accessibility related components which are based on top of Java, and therefore prevent distributors who truly care for Free Software from integrating these components. I've tried several times to compile these three things on top of a truly free java implementation, but it seems they're doing their best to prevent this from working by using the latest and "greatest" Java SDK tech in their code. All in all, Sun is obviously trying to make Java a required component of your computer system when it comes to Accessibility. I guess thats what one gets out of a deal by investing efforts into it, but it is amazing how no one seems to realize this, or seems to do anything about it. Either Sun changes its license for Java such that it is more easily redistributable, or we'll have to ensure that the Java components in the Accessibility area do run on Free Java Alternatives. Something has to be done. -- CYa, Mario _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list