Using text-to-speech technology in my web app

Hi all,
I work for a small web development company and we're curently in the process
of building a web app for foreign language learners. One of the features
we'd like to have is speech synthesis. We immediately thought about
incorporating the technology developed by Apple into our app, but
I want to make sure we're allowed to do that in the first place.
Basically, here's what we want to do: we have a simple application
where users can learn new vocabulary. Every word saved by a user
can have a few example sentences (also posted by our users).
We could then generate audio files from these sentences using
"say" command (which is built into the Mac OS) and put
them on our website.
If you're familiar with Apple's policy on such uses of their text-to-speech
synthesis, I'd be grateful if you could clarify it for me.
Thanks.
PS: it's my first post here, so if I chose the wrong forum, please let me know where
I should post it.

Hi there
I've noticed more than few posts about this since Captivate 4
was released.
Are you by chance using Windows Vista 64 bit? Seems most that
have reported this issue have been using that version.
Please report it to Adobe as a bug.
Click
here to view the WishForm/Bug Reporting Form
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