[DECtalk] speaking of dectalk

Johnny Lam johnnybrl at gmail.com
Sun Jan 2 22:38:30 EST 2011


hi, I think they should replace the convert to wav to mp3 instead. Since Wav 
files take up more room than mp3 does.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] speaking of dectalk


> 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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