Hi Charles, Yes, of course. Its perfectly legal to use Eloquence if it came a part of Jaws, Window-Eyes, etc through the screen reader's API because you are still using the product the TTS engine was licensed for.
The problem with RealSpeak, Vocalizer, and Eloquence is they have exclusive licenses that prevent their use with applications that are not licensed to use that software. For instance, let's assume I wrote an Eloquence driver and then bundled Eloquence with my game. That would be illegal because I don't legally have a license to redistribute Eloquence with my product nor licensed the TTS engine for direct support. As I said Eloqunce has an exclusive license and technically every application requires its own licensed copy of Eloquence. The only way round that legally is to send text messages to Jaws, Window-Eyes, etc and let the screen reader speak text rather than use Eloquence directly. HTH On 11/11/11, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: > 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? > > --- > Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, > you! are! finished! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
