[DECtalk] making a better way to put in notes

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That's the $64000.00 question.  I have a Dectalk  4.0 Speak Window that I 
down loaded from the internet years ago.  To my  ears, it sounds as close to the 
Dennis Klatt hardware version as you can  get.  When Fonix bought Dectalk, 
they never god the files that date back as  far as mine does.  Somehow, the 
earliest software version that Fonix has  was already changed, but no one knows by 
who or why.  So, at best you end  up with a less than desirable quality 
version of Dectalk.
 
Dennis use to give out the source code for Dectalk, it  was never meant to be 
private.  I've talked with Corine about this a few  times.  From what I 
understand, she believes that someone knows how or has  a decompiled version of the 
4.40 Dectalk Speak Window.  If we ever track it  down, we want to create and 
release a version of that  quality.
 
So every so often I go fishing in hopes of finding  someone who can decompile 
it.  I have 2 friends that could crack it, but  they won't out of fear of 
being in big trouble.  They both fail to  understand that they would be helping 
in a big way.  
 
So I think our only hope is finding a person that both  knew Dennis and has 
those files.  So every so often I ask to see if I might  get lucky on behalf of 
Fonix.
 
 
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In a message dated 2/16/2007 5:18:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
guiaccess at covad.net writes:

Why would Fonix want to do  this?  Have they not the source code for DECtalk 
since they own  it?


GUI Access






Would that work on the Dectalk 4.0 speak window?  Fonix,  Gallaudet, and 
myself are forever trying to decompile it.  Those codes  are no where to be found 
and we want to decompile the Speak Window to access  the dell files.





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In a  message dated 2/16/2007 3:55:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
guiaccess at covad.net writes:

I spent many hours long  ago reverse engineering the format of the DECtalk 
dictionary.   Surprisingly, the format is quite simple.  I wrote some code to 
dump  the contents of a DECtalk dictionary; I should dig it  up.




GUI  Access









here's an url for making pronunciation dictionaries.  not  sure if this is 
what you are talking about.  When I tried to look  at the dectalk.dic in 
notepad.  It looked like garbage.   (smiles)

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AActually if  someone ever figures out how to access the Dectalk Dictionary, 
you  can.  Take like the C notes.  You could assign "LC" to  "1" then "LCS" to 
"2", and "MC" to "13", then "MCS" to "14" and  so on.  I want to do this 
myself but I can't access to  dictionary.  I'm glad I never did it though or my so
ngs wouldn't  work on all Dectalk versions.








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In a message dated  2/16/2007 9:48:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
taz0801 at charter.net  writes:

what if we had a  better way to put in notes?  instead of remembering numbers 
you  could 'write the following.  [ao<2bf,qn>ll<3bf,qn>]  tell me what you 
guys think.




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