<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk" target="_blank">cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, I've just sent them an email asking to clarify.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Getting back to this, after registering for the Ivona development program I got access to their SaaS terms of use (<a href="https://secure.ivona.com/static/pdf/saas_en.pdf">https://secure.ivona.com/static/pdf/saas_en.pdf</a>).</div>
<div style>It says:</div><div style><br></div><div style>"III. SCOPE AND TYPES OF “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICES</div><div style>...</div><div style>3. “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service is dedicated solely to entrepreneurs. Subject to the </div>
<div>provisions of these Regulations, the Service Receiver is entitled to use of “IVONA </div><div>Speech Cloud” Service for the purposes of the business activity run by Service </div><div>Receiver, except for business activity in the areas of Telephony System, in particular </div>
<div>interactive voice response (IVR) systems, Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PBX, IP </div><div>PABX or other) or any other telecommunication solution.</div><div>...</div><div>IV. FREE “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICE<br>
</div><div>...</div><div>3. The Text converted into the Speech generated under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” </div><div>Service, will be preceded by advertising material of Ivona and/or other advertising </div><div>material in the form of sound, to what the Service Receiver agrees ordering Unpaid </div>
<div>“IVONA Speech Cloud” Service.</div><div>4. The Service Receiver shall not modify, in any way, Speech generated as part of Free </div><div>“IVONA Speech Cloud” Service.</div><div>5. The Service Receiver acknowledges that the objective of provision of Free “IVONA </div>
<div>Speech Cloud” Service by Ivona is primarily to enable the Service Receiver to </div><div>familiarize with the functionality, characteristics, uses and suitability of “IVONA Speech </div><div>Cloud” Service for the Service Receiver. Therefore, the Service Receiver agrees to use </div>
<div>Speech made available to it under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the above </div><div>purposes only. It is prohibited to use Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech </div><div>Cloud” Service for commercial purposes, i.e. to achieve profits or other material benefit </div>
<div>by the Service Receiver and/ or a third party. In particular, it is prohibited to make </div><div>Speech available to any third parties against payment, in any manner, as well as </div><div>reproduce, distribute, broadcast, publish Speech and on the Internet, radio, television or </div>
<div>through any other media.</div><div style>"</div><div style><br></div><div style>That makes it impossible to use Ivona for our purposes as every user/company would needs to have a valid subscription and to generate it's own voice prompt files. Redistribution of pre-compiled voice files is not possible.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I fear as number III.3 makes it quite clear that usage for PBX purposes is critical Ivona is not an option to be used anymore for default voice prompt packages.</div><div style><br></div><div style>
<br></div><div style>Br,</div><div style>Julian</div><div style><br></div></div><br></div></div>