[DECtalk] speaking of dectalk

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

I'd like to point out something here. As far as I know, the SAPI version of 
DECtalk hasn't been developed yet. The design for the thing may not even be 
finalized yet. So there are going to be lots of questions for which nobody, 
and I mean absolutely nobody, knows the answer. When will it be out? How 
much will it cost? How big will it be? Will there be any new DECtalk 
functionality?

One thing I'd love to see is an updated speak program like speak43, which 
doesn't have a size limit on the file you can load into it as Speak43 does. 
Also, I'd love to see the "Convert to wav" option reenabled.

Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon Misch" <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] speaking of dectalk


> thanks for the comments. i see what you mean. when this gets through, all 
> my screen readers will finaly have a voice for dectalk and even nvda users 
> will be able to take advantage of this. can't wait. wonder how big the 
> download would be.
>
> On Jan 2, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:
>
>> Brandon, I myself see no need for a Jaws Dectalk driver, being that a 
>> SAPI5
>> version of Dectalk will be created. Dectalk can then be accessed by
>> switching Jaws synth from Eloquence to SAPI5. That's a very interesting
>> point you make about whether or not the SAPI5 Dectalk will also be
>> SAPI4-compatible. I have noticed that some SAPI5 synthesizers also work 
>> as
>> SAPI4 voices. I've never understood how a voice can be SAPI5 and SAPI4 at
>> the same time.
>> These are just my thoughts. I know my comments do not adequately answer 
>> your
>> questions.
>> Blake
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Misch
>> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 5:58 PM
>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] speaking of dectalk
>>
>> will this be backwards compatible to sapi 4 or a new version of dectalk?
>> maybe there should be a jaws driver that works with this directly since
>> access 32 is broken.
>>
>> On Jan 2, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Corine Bickley wrote:
>>
>>
>> Ed has kindly sent the CD we need to start to Enable Rehab. Now we
>> need to finalize some paperwork and then we can get started. MANY THANKS
>> ED!!!
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hey this is Brandon. whatever happened to someone creating a
>> sapi 5 version of dectalk? never heard back on this list about it.
>>
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