What is my best option for a g2p solution which I can use in a commercial environment?
Sequitur G2P is GPL, so I can't use it, and I am trying to decide between implementing something similar to it, or just some simple rule based solution.
(That is, unless I missed something and Kaldi already has a better solution)
TIA!
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There is Phonetisaurs, which is BSD licenced and I heard that some people
around kaldi are using it (https://code.google.com/p/phonetisaurus/). I was
testing it several months ago for my work on Babel program, but in the end
decided to use Sequitur.
y.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Tony Esposito <antonioesposito@users.sf.net
wrote:
Hello Everyone,
What is my best option for a g2p solution which I can use in a commercial
environment?
Sequitur G2P is GPL, so I can't use it, and I am trying to decide between
implementing something similar to it, or just some simple rule based
solution.
(That is, unless I missed something and Kaldi already has a better
solution)
Usually g2p is something that is used behind the scenes by researchers
and is not actually sold as part of a commercial product. It's
perfectly fine to use GPL code for this (e.g. Linux is GPL), and you
can include it as a separate tool in a commercially released product,
as long as you make the code available. The only thing you can't do
is to extend the code of g2p itself, or include it in a larger
program, and then sell your larger program or your modified g2p
without releasing the source. But since sequitur is most useful as a
separate tool anyway, you likely wouldn't want to do this.
I don't think the license is a problem.
Dan
There is Phonetisaurs, which is BSD licenced and I heard that some people
around kaldi are using it (https://code.google.com/p/phonetisaurus/). I was
testing it several months ago for my work on Babel program, but in the end
decided to use Sequitur.
y.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Tony Esposito <antonioesposito@users.sf.net
wrote:
Hello Everyone,
What is my best option for a g2p solution which I can use in a commercial
environment?
Sequitur G2P is GPL, so I can't use it, and I am trying to decide between
implementing something similar to it, or just some simple rule based
solution.
(That is, unless I missed something and Kaldi already has a better
solution)
Hello Everyone,
What is my best option for a g2p solution which I can use in a commercial environment?
Sequitur G2P is GPL, so I can't use it, and I am trying to decide between implementing something similar to it, or just some simple rule based solution.
(That is, unless I missed something and Kaldi already has a better solution)
TIA!
There is Phonetisaurs, which is BSD licenced and I heard that some people
around kaldi are using it (https://code.google.com/p/phonetisaurus/). I was
testing it several months ago for my work on Babel program, but in the end
decided to use Sequitur.
y.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Tony Esposito <antonioesposito@users.sf.net
Usually g2p is something that is used behind the scenes by researchers
and is not actually sold as part of a commercial product. It's
perfectly fine to use GPL code for this (e.g. Linux is GPL), and you
can include it as a separate tool in a commercially released product,
as long as you make the code available. The only thing you can't do
is to extend the code of g2p itself, or include it in a larger
program, and then sell your larger program or your modified g2p
without releasing the source. But since sequitur is most useful as a
separate tool anyway, you likely wouldn't want to do this.
I don't think the license is a problem.
Dan
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Jan Trmal jtrmal@users.sf.net wrote:
https://code.google.com/p/phonetisaurus/
Phonetisaurus comes with BSD Licence, this is maybe what you want. I did not spot a G2P tool in Kaldi yet.
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