I'm confused. What if you have a game that uses your screen reader, which
happens to be JAWS, which uses Eloquence as the speech? I would think that
would be legal, wouldn't it?
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From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features
Hi Quentin,
I'm not really sure myself. Its tricky because the license for
Eloquence 6 has changed from prior versions.
For example, earlier versions of Eloquence that came with IBM Viavoice
were built using Sapi 4, and was free to use with other Sapi 4
applications that supported Sapi 4. However, with version 6 Eloquence
has become fairly proprietary in terms of its end user license
agreement.
However, if you are connecting to Eloquence via COM I don't think they
can legally stop you from supporting the TTS engine since its using a
common interface. What would be illegal is if you created a game and
provided a copy of Eloquence with the game as you would illegally be
redistributing the software, but just adding COM support for it in
your speech API shouldn't be illegal if I got my facks straight.
That's the problem with NVDA. Writing a speech driver for Eloquence is
perfectly legal as far as I know, but NVDA can't ship the TTS engine
with the screen reader legally because NVDA doesn't have a license to
redistribute. That's my understanding of the problem with NVDA and
Eloquence.
HTH
On 11/10/11, QuentinC <quent...@cfardel.net> wrote:
Since the discussion has started and since someone talked about
eloquence, I have a question: is it legal or definitely illegal to let a
game, or more generally, a program, connect to eloquence directly ?
I'm thinking on something I saw once some time ago: sapi-to-eloquence
bridges, or script/plugins or little cheats existing for certain games
that make eloquence speaking instead of sapi.
Note that all these things have in common that they doesn't embed a copy
of eloquence themselves, they generally only use it if it has been
installed by another program (i.e. jaws of course, but also IBM home
page reader, older softwares that still use IBM viavoice, etc.)
I know that the discussion is difficult, for example the status of using
eloquence with NVDA is not very clear... but I would like very much to
have a clear answer about that topic, in order to be definitely fixed on
what is allowed and what is not.
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