Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: Speech recognition

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Milos Jakubicek wrote:
> Olivier Galibert wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:44:20PM -0600, Jerry James wrote:
>>> Is anybody interested in working with me on getting some voice
>>> recognition product packaged up in usable form on Fedora?
>>
>> For speech recognition, software is only part of the problem and,
>> fundamentally, the easiest one (take the algorithms, implement them,
>> optimize/debug at will).  The real problem is the data needed to build
>> the models to feed the algorithms.  There isn't as far as I know any
>> reasonable set of corpus available under an open source license usable
>> to build a decent speech recognizer.  Which makes open source speech
>> recognition something not doable yet.
>>
>>   OG.
> 
> (I'm sorry for cross-posting to fedora-legal)
> 
> Well, the most interesting question here for me is what about licensing
> such language models -- could they be considered to be firmware
> (redistributable, not modifiable)?

No. They are not firmware and cannot be considered as one.

Rahul