On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [snip] > > If I undestand correctly what you're describing, this would not be that. > Sounds like what you describe is a matter of piping text through MacInTalk, > or something like that, and saving it as MP3. Plus, they wouldn't have any > inflection, as we both noted, so it would be hard to listen to -- especially > for something like that, where you need to understand all of it. > [snip] The thing is, the types of cues you suggest inserting are already part of the speech systems. The creators use all sorts of contextual signals and such to change inflection in the synthesized voice. True, this is not so good to date, but it's getting better. So, while inserting XML cues and such might help, it's sort of superfluous with the types of systems of which I know. [snip] > All my speculations are purely divorced from the IP aspects of it, of > course. On the IP level, I still am not sure what to think of it. I think I > probably favor a broader reading of Fair Use than is currently accepted. > It's my mis-spent Libertarian youth coming back to haunt me. > [snip] > Keep in mind that fair use is a defense to copyright infringement, not a right. This is something that is generally not understood by the non-copyright folks (read 98% or more of the world) You still infringe the copyright and can be sued. You just say that what you did does not warrant any sort of compensation to the copyright holder. I would love to see specific grants of rights for people to read to each other in non-commercial contexts, such as in the car, at bed time, in book clubs, and the like. Specific grants of rights have to be codified into statute or granted by the copyright holders, such as in a notice in the work (hint, hint). However, I think Blount has me convinced that the Guild has a case and that authors will lose out from Kindle's *strongly marketed*text-to-speech ability. -- Dave Henn [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
