[DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK

shaun everiss shaun.e at xtra.co.nz
Tue Feb 28 18:18:22 EST 2006 

Well I have v 4.41 here thaniks to the private passworded server I have got onto.
At 06:46 p.m. 28/02/2006, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>No, unfortunately not.  The current version sold by GW Micro is version 
>4.6.1, which doesn't sound too good.  I have an old 4.4 ACCESS32 with no 
>unlock mechanism here, so if someone wants it I could send that along.
>
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at doorpi.net>
>To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:07 PM
>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>
>
>Can 4.3 access 32 still be bought to be used with jaws and the like?
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Matthew Horspool" <drjaws at blueyonder.co.uk>
>To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 10:48 AM
>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's up on the DECtalk archive, and a direct URL is
>> http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/dectalk4.3.zip
>>
>> Note that that's a Sean Randall distribution and so it might not have
>> exactly the same files as the DEC distribution all that time ago.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Matthew F.  Horspool
>>
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Corine Bickley" <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu>
>> To: "'DECtalk Discussions'" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>>
>>
>> Is the 4.3 version available to anyone interested? How could I get a
>> copy? I
>> work in research and teaching, and often have things I'd like to try 
>> out
>> (I
>> need wav files generated) by having subjects listen and evaluate.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jayson Smith
>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 4:00 AM
>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>>
>> Hi,
>> As I understand it, the demo programs are produced so that potential
>> clients
>> can evaluate DECtalk to see if it meets their needs, from a quality of
>> speech etc. prospective.  I assume that a full version would maybe be 
>> a
>> Speak window but also contain libraries and other files so that 
>> DECtalk
>> could be interfaced directly with other programs.  The demo, at least
>> version 4.3, will read a file up to about 60K in size.  Also, version
>> 4.3
>> lets you convert the text into a wav file which is very nice!  Version
>> 4.6.1
>> or is it 4.61 won't let you do that, and I happen to have a copy of 
>> the
>> 4.6.4 demo and it also won't convert to wav.
>> Jayson.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <Dectalk at aol.com>
>> To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:00 AM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks so much!  My colleague Corine is now on  this list and so I
>>> thought
>> it
>>> was a good question to ask.  I just have my  communication device,
>>> plus
>> I've
>>> never heard or seen a Dectalk Express, so that  was a treat for me.
>>>
>>> Say, my friend Dave reminded me that the Dectalk on my  CD is just a
>>> demo.
>>> What is a full software version like?  All I  ever get for my work is
>>> the
>> demo
>>> speak windows.  To me, they are like a  full version because they
>>> never
>> expire
>>> and they read any size file.  So I  forget that they are demos.  So
>>> what
>> does
>>> a full version do that the demo  won't?
>>>
>>> I probably could get a full version but I really have  no need for
>>> one.
>> I'm
>>> just curious as to what it is and why you would need  it when the 
>>> demo
>> does it
>>> all?
>>>
>>>
>>> SNOOPI
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In a message dated 2/26/2006 11:23:32 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>>> ratguy at bellsouth.net writes:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I've reached the following conclusions.  I experimented  with DECtalk
>>> 4.3
>>> demo, creating a wav file.  I used your four  questions and invented
>> twelve
>>> more.  Questions starting with How,  Where, Why, what and when had a
>> downward
>>> inflection, like a sentence.   Others had an upward inflection like a
>>> question.  My DECtalk Express  using version 4.2CD of the firmware
>>> handles
>>> these questions in the same  way.  To hear DECtalk 4.3 asking these
>>> questions, get the following  file.
>>> http://www.bluegrasspals.com/questions.wav
>>> Here are the  questions.  Note that in the fourteenth question there
>>> is a
>>> comma,  which makes it still sound like a question.  The fifteenth
>> question
>>> is  just the second part of the fourteenth question but is still
>>> spoken
>> like
>>> a  sentence.
>>> Have you eaten yet?
>>> How many of your brothers still live at  home?
>>> How many years of school did it take to become a nurse?
>>> Where can  I get my suit cleaned?
>>> How do you want your hair cut?
>>> Would you like to  keep asking me questions?
>>> Should I go to the doctor?
>>> How much wood  should I bring home?
>>> Isn't she beautiful?
>>> Where is Dennis  sitting?
>>> Why does this computer keep crashing?
>>> When will I get to see  that movie?
>>> Who's on First?
>>> If I go to sleep tonight, when will I wake  up?
>>> When will I wake up?
>>> What is the square root of two?
>>>
>>> -----  Original Message -----
>>> From: <Dectalk at aol.com>
>>> To:  <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:12  AM
>>> Subject: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> >   1.  Have you eaten yet?
>>> >     2.   How many of your brothers still live at  home?
>>> >      3.  How many years of school did it take to become a   nurse?
>>> >     4.  Where can I get my suit  cleaned?
>>> > Part of my work promted me to ask you all  a Dectalk  question.  My
>>> Colleague
>>> > wanted to know how my Dectalk handled  the  above questions.  For
>>> > the
>> most
>>> part
>>> > the inflections  went up in the middle  of these questions rather
>>> > than
>> the
>>> >  end.  I have two questions for the  group.
>>> >
>>> > 1.   How does Dectalk Express handle these  questions?
>>> >
>>> >  2.  In the manual it says something about the  "^" changing how
>>> > things
>> are
>>> > emphosized.  I think it's the ^ anyway.    How do you use it and
>>> > would
>> it
>>> change
>>> > how questions come   out?
>>> >
>>> > I think there are other symbos that change how   things are said,
>>> > Does
>>> anyone
>>> > know what they are?  I used this  stuff twice  in my life but I
>>> > forget
>> what
>>> > they are.  I just  remember not being impressed  enough to use 
>>> > them.
>> But
>>> now  I'm
>>> > trying to remember what they were and what  they  did.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >  SNOOPI
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
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