[DECtalk] Revision history

[Corine Bickley]

Hi DECtalkers -
I'll ask Ed Bruckert, lead engineer of the DECtalk project for DEC, and then
for all the various owners up to and including Fonix until Ed retired (now
legally blind) a couple of years ago, and a dear friend (and former GREAT
boss). He'll remember.

ED - can you enlighten us all?

thanks to all for your interest - corine bickley (former student of Dennis
Klatt, and DECtalk fan)

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is probably too much to ask, but is there a revision history of the
> various software and firmware releases?  I've seen 4.3, 4.4, 4.6X, 5.0 and
> 4.2CD.  It would be nice to know what actually changed in the various
> versions.  Obviously, 4.6X sounds different than 4.2CD, but what else
> changed?  The other reason why it would be nice to know is because some
> songs that obviously work with my hardware DEC Express running 4.2CD give
> errors on 4.3 or 4.4.  I've looked at the various manuals and text files in
> the archive but haven't found anything.  Thanks all for any help.
>
> In response to a recent thread here, I usually read at about 400-430 WPM
> for
> email and such.  For books, I'm not sure what it is but it's a lot slower.
>
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