1 The speech synth is based on rsynth by the late
2 Nick Ing-Simmons (et al).
4 He described the legal status as:
6 This is a text to speech system produced by
7 integrating various pieces of code and tables
8 of data, which are all (I believe) in the
11 Since then, the rsynth source code has passed legal
12 checks by several open source organizations, so it
13 "should" be pretty safe.
15 The primary copyright claims seem to have to do
16 with text-to-speech dictionary use, which I've
19 I've done some serious refactoring, clean-up and
20 feature removal on the source, as all I need is
21 "a" free, simple speech synth, not a "good"
22 speech synth. Since I've removed a bunch of stuff,
23 this is probably safer public domain release
26 (I'm rather surprised there's no good public domain
27 speech synths out there; after all, it's 2013..)
29 I'm placing my changes in public domain as well,
30 or if that's not acceptable for you, then CC0:
31 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
33 The SoLoud interface files (soloud_speech.*) are
34 under ZLib/LibPNG license.