A new tts on Linux

MENGUAL Jean-Philippe mengualjeanphi at free.fr
Sat Nov 5 22:02:54 UTC 2016


Right. I forward to university, it's its product. They'll see with their
lawyers. I really think they trademark it given commercial usage of it
in various products. I don't know details of such trademarks.



Le 04/11/2016 à 15:46, Jackie McBride a écrit :
> Well, u may have had the name first, but that would be irrelevant if u
> didn't trademark it (or its non-US equivalent) & Kali did. U may
> really want to check, as there does exist the possibility that the
> name is infringing on an existing trademark, which could spell *big*
> legal trouble. I'm no lawyer, nor do I pretend to be, but I do know
> that infringing on a trademarked name is a very big no-no. It also
> really creates a lot of confusion as regards the particular product
> being discussed. & that, folks, is all I'll say on the matter.
> 
> On 11/4/16, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi at free.fr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks Kyle for honest feedback, although I'm not surprised.
>>
>> I don't know when was born Kali, the security distro. Kali tts was born in
>> 1996. And is the result of years of research by Caen University. So I think
>> we cannot change the name of such product. I noticed several time the point,
>> but I won't ask to Kali to change name explaning that another project in the
>> world has the same one. And I don't think confusion is easy between both
>> purposes.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>>
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>> ----- Jackie McBride <abletec at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>> Any reason u call it kali, since that's the name of a distro dedicated
>>> to security? IMO, it creates a great deal of confusion.
>>>
>>> On 11/3/16, Kyle <kyle4jesus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> To be brutally honest, I think some of the Flite/Mimic voices sound much
>>>> much better in English. Even Espeak, though not a "natural" voice,
>>>> definitely sounds less, um, like it's got something firmly entrenched in
>>>> its cheak or something, and it even has somewhat better inflection with
>>>> the right settings, and even the default inflection isn't so bad,
>>>> meaning it doesn't hit unusually high notes at the wrong times as this
>>>> demo voice is doing. Perhaps this proprietary voice is good in French,
>>>> but there's no way I would pay anything close to the asking price for
>>>> the English variant, especially since I wouldn't even be paying for a
>>>> recognized free open source license.
>>>> Sent from time
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