[DECtalk] SAPI questions

Brandon Misch bmisch2002 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 22:24:04 EDT 2011


the only screen reader and dectalk combination that plays nice well, at least with changing inflection and stuff like that is the dectalk that comes with system access. if you put dectalk commands and words the pitch and stuff will change like in the dectalk demos. 

On Apr 4, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Alex H. wrote:

> Yep, but how does one pipe the text into the synth? Most screen
> readers hav punctuation rules which override DECTalk's default
> behavior. If you use DECTalk Access32 with JAWS for instance and type
> [:phone on], it will just say colon phone on.
> Then there are spacing issues I've experienced. I've tried to make
> access32 play nice with JFW to sing stuff, but it hates spaces! Even
> modifying the .jcf file to speak all punctuation and turning the
> actual words to symbals did very little.
> 
> Would we just use ttsapp.exe or some other direct piping method and
> feed DT that way?
> 
> Thanks.
> Alex
> 
> On 4/2/11, ebruckert Bruckert <edbruckert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There is no SAPI issue here at all. The singing mode is a subset of phonemic
>> mode and use functional in all versions of DECtalk.
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Alex H. <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I also would like to know what sort of things are included with the
>>> synth. My assumption is that it can sing rather easily, so how would
>>> one go about doing that with the new SAPI version?
>>> 
>>> Alex
>>> 
>>> On 3/31/11, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> If the downloadable version is ready, hopefully some questions can be
>>>> answered. I'm wanting to know some info.
>>>> 
>>>> What all is included? Just the synth itself? Or is a reader/converter
>>>> program also included?
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a pronunciation dictionary included?
>>>> 
>>>> Can the end user change speech parameters using traditional DECtalk
>>> inline
>>>> commands?
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
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