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Re: Reading samples
Hi Mike,
The
whole idea of creating GPL licenced acoustic models was to ensure that
the 'source' audio was made available for others to generate their own
acoustic models (providing the 'source' code to a user of a program is
the essence of the GPL license itself).
Otherwise, we could do as you suggest and scrape audio from
anywhere and everywhere (TV, Podcasts, etc.) to generate acoustic
models.
Copyright protects the form of expression of a work,
and any derivative works, including the 'reading' of those works. So I
doubt that commercial publications would be interested in letting their
IP go...
If you are interested, what you might do is contribute a reading to
LibriVox, which uses project Gutenberg texts (out-of-copyright books)
to create public domain audio books. You could find a title of
interest to your blind listeners, record it to LibriVox (in MP3 or Ogg)
and to VoxForge (in WAV or FLAC)... two for one :)
thanks for looking for ways to help out,
Ken
--- (Edited on 11/25/2009 1:27 pm [GMT-0500] by kmaclean) ---