[DECtalk] DECtalk Interesting find about the version of DT Access 32 shipping with Window-Eyes

[Alex H.]

Hi all,

I was listening to an old Main menu from 2003, and they had Window-Eyes 
4.5 what's new, Doug was on and they were talking about shipping DT 
Access32 with that version upwards. Here's the link to the playlist file:
http://www.acbradio.org/archives/mainmenu/mm134.m3u

For those who don't wanna listen/just want to know what happened, Fonix 
was helping GW Micro get the 4.61 version of DT (you know, the froggy 
one?) to sound better and fix some errors and so on. Their fixes made DT 
sound classic again, or as classic as the Access32 was. Jonathan Mosen 
remarked in that section at 19:20 or so, "Ok, because DECTalk ain't what 
it used to be. Some of the newer iterations of the software sound 
quite...Strange." To which Doug laughed and agreed, then going on to 
state that Fonix was incorporating GW's fixes to DECTalk and would be 
labeling this version as 4.62. It's just 4.61 with GW's fixes in it.

I wasn't even looking for DECTalk history, either! <grin> DECTalk is 
everywhere it seems in the blind world, and even outside it.

I'll never view Access32 the same. Thanks GW!

Alex