[DECtalk] dectalk for XP

Alex Hall mehgcap at gwi.net
Sun Mar 1 17:48:09 EST 2009


They have never worked for me either, with xp, vista, jaws9 and 
jaws10, on two different AMD computers.  No clue why.

Have a great day,
Alex

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Blake Roberts" <beroberts at hughes.net
>To: "'DECtalk Discussions'" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>Date sent: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:29:55 -0500
>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk for XP

>Graphic 1 is play, graphic 2 is pause and graphic 3 is stop.  I'm 
refering to
>the three graphics after the speaking rate icon.

>I have not used the Jaws scripts for years, so I don't know why 
they are not
>working with your copy of Jaws.  Have you tried recompiling the 
scripts with
>the Jaws script manager?
>Blake
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of piotr 
machacz
>Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 5:15 PM
>To: DECtalk Discussions
>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk for XP

>Speaking of all the dectalk apps, I could use some help.  Back in 
the days
>when I was using window-eyes I was able to focus, with the mouse, 
the button
>to play and then I would be able to preview everything as I was 
working
>rather than working in notepad and then loading the file in 
speak43 to play
>it.  well I'll be backing back to wineyes, but for now I use 
jaws, and the
>scripts I have don't work properly, pressing the keystrokes 
causes opening
>of some unwanted things and, of course, the desired action is not 
performed.
>I do, however have hot spot clicker which can click wen I press a 
certain
>keystroke.  so my question is, what graphics are play, pause and 
stop?

>On 3/1/09, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net> wrote:
>> As Jayson said, the file to open with Dectalk 4.3 needs to be 
called
>> demo.txt.  I agree with Jayson that 4.3 is the only version that 
lets
>> you save Dectalk speech/singing as a .wav file without having to 
use a
>> recording application.

>> To convert demo.txt to a wav file using Dectalk 4.3:
>> 1.  Open demo.txt in speak43.exe.
>> 2.  Press alt-f to enter the file menu.
>> 3.  Press c to enter the "convert the wave" menu.  Accept the 
default,
>> "11025khz 16-bit, mono" by pressing enter.
>> 4.  Give the wave file a name.
>> 5.  Tab to the save button and press enter.  Dectalk converts 
the file
>> to .wav for you.
>> Blake
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jahmal 
Lovato
>> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 8:22 PM
>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk for XP

>> How do you make, or not make, load an other text file?
>> I've never had the hang of loading different songs, accept the 
demo
>> file in 4.3.
>> And, how do you record a wav file in the application?
>> Thank you,
>> Jahmal
>> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:12:34 -0500, Jayson Smith wrote:


>>>Unzip the file into a new folder, the name doesn't matter.  Run 
the
>>>speak43.exe application in that folder, and it will open up a 
file
>>>called demo.txt.  That is a hardwired filename in that 
application and
>>>cannot be changed.
>>>One reason a lot of folks use 4.3 is that, as far as I know, it's 
the
>>>only version out there which allows saving of its synthesized 
speech
>>>output directly as .wav files without using something like Total 
Recorder.
>>>Jayson

>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Jahmal Lovato" <jahmallovato1 at gmail.com
>>>To: <beroberts at hughes.net>; "DECtalk Discussions"
>>><dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>; "'DECtalk Discussions'"
>>><dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>>>Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:44 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk for XP


>>>Hi, will there be dectalk for vista and 7?
>>>If not, I am not upgrading.
>>>I just downloaded the dectalk 4.3.
>>>Where do you recommend extracting it, and how do you run the 
program?
>>>Is there a dot exe file, or do I go to run and type something?
>>>It was kind of different with windows me On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 
18:38:45
>>>-0500, Blake Roberts wrote:


>>>>Alex,
>>>>Having used both Dectalk 4.3 and 4.4, I think the voice quality 
for
>>>>both versions is identical.  Dectalk started sounding awful when
>>>>Dectalk 4.6 first came out (version 4.61).  Although Phonix  has
>>>>attempted to improve voice quality in recent versions of Dectalk 
4.6,
>>>>I think 4.3 and 4.4 sound the best.
>>>>Blake

>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>>>>[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Alex Hall
>>>>Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:33 PM
>>>>To: DECtalk Discussions
>>>>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk for XP

>>>>How is 4.4's quality? Many people say that 4.3 is good and all 
other
>>>>versions sound horrible.  Not needing to have demo.txt as my only
>>>>file would be really great (playdec.exe never worked for me).

>>>>Have a great day,
>>>>Alex

>>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>>From: "Blake Roberts" <beroberts at hughes.net
>>>>>To: "'DECtalk Discussions'" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com Date sent:
>>>>>Sat,
>>>>>28 Feb 2009 18:18:44 -0500
>>>>>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk for XP

>>>>>Jahmal,
>>>>>You can get two versions of Dectalk that work great on Windows XP
>>>>from
>>>>>www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/software
>>>>>On that page, you can  get either Dectalk 4.4 or 4.3.  I prefer
>>>>Dectalk 4.4
>>>>>because you can load any file with a .en extension into the
>>>>software.  Lots
>>>>>of people prefer version 4.3, however.  Dectalk 4.3's limitation
>>>>is the file
>>>>>to be loaded has to be called demo.txt.  Both versions I
>>>>mentioned do not
>>>>>require installation.  Just extract the zip file into a folder
>>>>and run the
>>>>>program.
>>>>>Blake
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>>>>>[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jahmal
>>>>Lovato
>>>>>Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 5:50 PM
>>>>>To: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>>>>>Subject: [DECtalk] dectalk for XP

>>>>>Hi, my computer was just replaced with one with windows XP on it.
>>>>>Where can I download dectalk for windows XP?
>>>>>Thank you,
>>>>>Jahmal


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