[DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK

Wed Mar 1 00:08:55 EST 2006

Hi,

On most ACCESS32 products it's a floppy disk with three keys, sort of 
like JAWS used to have.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corine Bickley" <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu>
To: "'DECtalk Discussions'" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK

What is the unlock mechanism?

-----Original Message-----
From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Horspool
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:46 AM
To: DECtalk Discussions
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK

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.
>
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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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