[DECtalk] SAPI questions

Alex H. linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 00:27:53 EDT 2011


Hmm. Never knew that. Cool!

alex

On 4/4/11, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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