Text to Speech Laws
- Started
- Last post
- 2 Responses
- dMullins
I am having a lot of difficulty finding much info in the way of the laws surrounding TTS and how content is re-rendered audibly.
After much research there are plenty of mobile apps and web apps out there that are either showing (via RSS), or reading (via TTS) news that has been aggregated from a variety of small-, medium- and large-sized online publications. Looking into the EFF, DMCA and some legal precedents (of which there appear to be very few), our team is still a bit confused about how this all works. Before sitting down with our lawyer early next week to discuss more in-person, I wanted to toss this out there and see if anyone had any info or experience with this.
Specifically, we are looking to aggregate news from sites, and use TTS to play it back for the cause of being able to listen to your news while commuting, etc. Not incredibly novel, but a little side project we are working on for ourselves.
Thanks in advance—looking forward to any feedback you guys can provide.
- yurimon0
I would assume if it was text to speach while visiting their website direct, would be ok. because you could do that with apple or buy a program to do it.
But I would assume that if it was from their site and you took the content and made it come from you or appear to be proprietary with out a link back and some one finds out somehow. then its a grey area.
Alot of news companies aggressively police the web for their content on site that propagate news for seo, make it appear to google they are content creators.
Thats all i could say on the subject. if it closer related to rss maybe ok. i would think.
- dMullins0
Fair points indeed. We definitely intend to have click-through back to source content. We're striking out all over the place finding any laws around TTS translation of text content though. I'll report back next week after we meet with the legal eagles so anyone else's future knowledge.