[DECtalk] INtro and Question

Doris and Chris chipmunks at gmx.net
Tue Aug 2 15:18:05 EDT 2011


Hi,

I do not remember this. Just do a "google" search for something like 
"dectalk" and "sapi" and you should be able to find it.

hth

Doris



At 03:00 PM 8/2/2011, you wrote:
>On 8/2/2011 2:48 PM, Doris and Chris wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just subscribed to this list after finding a link to it during an
> > online search.
> >
> > I enjoy different synthesizers and synthesthizer voices. I have a
> > special affection for DECTalk as it was one of the first synthetic
> > voices I came in contact with in the form of Text Assist, the
> > original one) that came bundled with my creative Soundblaster card in
> > the mid 90's even befoer I lost my sight.
> >
> > when I did lose my sight in 1998, I used Text Assist with jaws 3.0
> > until we got my hardware synth shiped and until jaws 3.2 
> introduced eloquence.
> >
> > Recent versions of jaws , that is 11.0 and 12.0 are not able to use
> > Access 32 anymore. Is there a solution to this, that is is there a
> > driver update that I might be able to download somewhere?
> >
> > I recently came across a sapi 5 version of Software DECTalk speech.
> > This works adequately with jaws 11 and 12. I stumbled across this
> > sapi 5 version of dectalk while doing a google searchfor something
> > entirley unrelated. I have since attempted to research the source of
> > this sapi 5 version of dectalk. I was attempting to find out if this
> > is an oficial version of dectalk or if it is similar to the eloquence
> > driver for the free open source screenreader nvda. I would appreciate
> > more information on this. I am trying to find out if it is safe to
> > pass on this sapi 5 version of DECTAlk as I know several people who
> > miss their dectalk and who would love to use this version.
> >
> > Thanks much.
> >
> > Doris
> >
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> site did you find this  dectalk?
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