[DECtalk] I need help!

[Jayson Smith]

The Speak43 application is in software/dectalk4.3.zip in the archive. 
Download that and unzip it to its own folder. You will then have speak43.exe 
and a few other files.
Hope that helps.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jose Lomeli" <joselomeli9393 at lavabit.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] I need help!


> And where can I find the speak program? I don't think I have it!
> Email: joselomeli9393 at lavabit.com
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 4:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] I need help!
>
>
>> The DECtalk program, speak43, which you should be using, is an editing
>> environment in and of itself, with some Notepad-like features. You can 
>> use
>> any text editor you want to create your files, but the Speak application
>> can
>> only handle about 64K or so, so you can't create anything bigger than
>> that.
>> Also, the files must be text files, not Word or Word Perfect or RTF or
>> HTML
>> or...
>>     The Speak application will only open and use a file called demo.txt 
>> in
>> its own directory. This is a hardcoded filename and cannot be changed. A
>> few
>> years ago I wrote a program called Playdec which should be at the 
>> archive,
>> which will let you play any DECtalk file. It includes documentation and
>> source code. Recently a few people have said it didn't work for them.
>> YMMV.
>> Jayson
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jose Lomeli" <joselomeli9393 at lavabit.com>
>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 7:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] I need help!
>>
>>
>>> Ok, but do I use notepad or what program do I use for this? I also want
>>> to
>>> create a song for DecTalk but do I need any software to do this? Can I
>>> use
>>> NotePad? Does it have to be an executable file? I don't know about this
>>> this
>>> is my first time doing this! Can you help me?
>>> Email: joselomeli9393 at lavabit.com
>>> Check out my skype group go to
>>> http://www.skype.com/go/joinpublicchat?skypename=jose.lomeli93&topic=BrailleNote%20Chats&blob=dDeeGFLbPZ1yYWsQKwPyGHEn1UenwCpBFSaz8pJJsEDG8KIPPTsNWZSLNj1A9qv45h8FHco3mmio
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>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
>>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 4:10 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] I need help!
>>>
>>>
>>>> The only software you need is the DECtalk software which, I believe, 
>>>> you
>>>> already have. Just grab a copy of the manual at the archive. It's the
>>>> full
>>>> manual that used to come with the older hardware synthesizers, and will
>>>> tell
>>>> you everything you need to know about the commands to create a custom
>>>> voice.
>>>> Jayson
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Jose Lomeli" <joselomeli9393 at lavabit.com>
>>>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 6:59 PM
>>>> Subject: [DECtalk] I need help!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello; Listers, I need help. I want to create a voice with DecTalk. How
>>>> can
>>>> I do this? Do I need any software to do this? Can someone please call 
>>>> me
>>>> on
>>>> skype my skype id is
>>>> jose.lomeli93
>>>> I really appriciate it a lot because I need help!
>>>> Email: joselomeli9393 at lavabit.com
>>>> Check out my skype group go to
>>>> http://www.skype.com/go/joinpublicchat?skypename=jose.lomeli93&topic=BrailleNote%20Chats&blob=dDeeGFLbPZ1yYWsQKwPyGHEn1UenwCpBFSaz8pJJsEDG8KIPPTsNWZSLNj1A9qv45h8FHco3mmio
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