Re: Running Android Voices in Linux?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi Karen,
I'm in California. I'd be happy to connect with your associate if he'd be 
interested.
I've been a bit preoccupied the last couple of days with looking around for a 
new computer, so I havn't made the time to read yet if there is any licensing 
involved if one were to create a program linking Ivona to Orca/Speakup and 
widely distributing it. 
Of course I would prefer to work with purely open source software.
But as far as I know, Ivona is proprietary, like with the Ivona voice I use on 
Windows, I had to purchase it and thats just an individual copy.
But Readspeaker apparently offers an Ivona sdk compatible with Linux, and then 
of course there are the files that Chime found, so I'm assuming there must be 
some sort of licensing involved to distribute it on a global level as a 
plugin/add-on to Orca and Console readers. I think Ivona voices are some of the 
best quality out there, so I think its worth it to work with proprietary 
software in this case. I just have not familiarized myself with the legalities 
of it yet, (assuming there must be some). I plan to take a look at it today.
If your associate is in California, or even if he is in a different state but 
still interested, perhaps he has associates on the West Coast, or could 
contribute his skills remotely. 
I'm up for connecting with anyone who is interested.
Please let him know that I do not yet have a project team up and going, but 
that is the goal I am aiming for if putting Ivona on Linux is possible. I am in 
the beginning stages of reaching out to people who might be interested, and 
seeing if it is possible to make this work. I hope to have the opportunity to 
connect with him and put something together. 
Ok, I'm off to go read up on the documentation for those files now. Hopefully 
I'll be a bit more versed on the legalities when I check in tomorrow. 
Thanks,
SL
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