Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!n8emr!lwv
From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: TML Basic Inquiry
Message-ID: <486@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 17:12:52 GMT
References: <880301-134244-3124@Xerox>
Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Ham BBS, Columbus,Oh. 614-457-4227 (300/1200,8N1)
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WARNING! Though I have not seen this myself, developers on CIS mention that
the TML speech toolkit has a very very stringent licensing requirement.  Basically,
the folks that TML got the code from refuse to let the speech toolsets themselves
be redistributed.  At all.  Thus, if you write a program using the TML library,
you can distribute your source code, or you can distribute the program, but
the user cannot RUN the program without buying one of the First Byte (??)
programs like reader rabbit, etc.

AND!  The even bigger kicker is that thaere was some discussion that the speech
toolsets on some of the Byte talking disks was not compatible with the TML
library.  Research further before plunking down those $$...

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Larry W. Virden	 75046,606 (CIS)
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