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PSOLA: speech generation patent of France Télécom
Commemorate Banana Union Day

The PSOLA patent of France Telecom has prevented the speech generation system MBROLA from becoming free software.
Thierry Dutoit at fpms ac be knows more about this.
[ MPEG-related patents on compression of acoustic data | Dolby Standard tolerates no OpenSource implementation | PSOLA: speech generation patent of France Télécom | Internet-Telephonie: No Voice over IP | ASF: changing copyright rules by means of patents ]
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