[gcompris-devel] About Art4Apps library

[Isabelle Duston]

However it can use to make a demo version for user testing prototype.

The other option is to use the google version, it's actually pretty good, but with less languages.

I don't think google has any restriction. The speaker is a button on google translate.

Isabelle Duston 

> On Jan 13, 2014, at 3:21 AM, Bastien <bzg at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
> Isabelle DUSTON <isabelle at ilearn4fun.org> writes:
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>> I have just found an other one, even better
>> 
>> http://www.nuance.com/vocalizer5/flash/index.html
> 
> It's indeed very good.
> 
> I've found this demo page, where you can download the .wav output:
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> http://www.nuance.com/for-business/by-solution/customer-service-solutions/solutions-services/inbound-solutions/loquendo-small-business-bundle/interactive-tts-demo/index.htm
> 
>> It has many languages, I wonder whether there could be a way to ask them for
>> the permission to use them... it's not as if it would hurt their business,
>> they make money with industry, not with people like us , who do apps for
>> kids:(
> 
> The page above explicits the copyright terms in details.
> 
> The generated .wav files contain copyrighted materials, and
> even if they allow some non-profit to reuse the files for some
> use, this would (sadly) not be compatible with Sugar terms and
> free software in general.
> 
> -- 
> Bastien