Re: Eloquence on Braille Note Touch Plus, is it possible?
@NevEd: you really need to research Nuance's history to understand the whole of it. This isn't a matter of things were open source and got sold - in fact, gpl is legally binding, so a gpl violation is no joke. That isn't to say a software patent can't come for your head, but you do at least have some leverage in that department. The fact of the matter is that these were actually well-established companies (Royal Philips Electronics, BeVocal, Loquendo, SVox, L&H, Eloquent Technologies, you name it). All the companies they have acquired through shady manipulation. The literal only reason why Nuance has not taken over the tts market entirely is because they have Google and Amazon/Ivona as actual legitimate competition. They might even risk losing a foothold or two in some first world markets if Apple manages to in-house major languages, which they are slowly but surely working on doing. IT doesn't make Nuance any less of a thieving conglomerate, they're just no longer center stage because Google has tens times the amount of compute power that even Nuance could think of having to generate frighteningly realistic speech. That is literally it.
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