[DECtalk] speaking of dectalk

ebruckert Bruckert edbruckert at gmail.com
Mon Jan 3 10:01:44 EST 2011


Too old, the other languages were not good.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> wrote:

> will this have more than one language speaking of languages.
>
>  On Jan 3, 2011, at 8:46 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
>
>  First, why not both wave and MP3 no big deal.
> The version I ent is an olf one but I can't remeber the date. But I'm sure
> you'll all have a chnace to critic it.  What I find interesting is that
> except for the implementatopn OF Ken Syevens HLSYN model the changes in the
> English were relatively minor, but which people are very sensitive to. Even
> when I had both source codes togather abd could compare them we couldn't
> make them sound the same to long time listeners. We couldn't usee the old
> code as mosy of the changes were structural to suport multipple languages
> more practically.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I have to disagree here. MP3 compression is lossy. While it might be
>> argued
>> that not much might get lost where DECtalk is concerned, I feel it should
>> be
>> left up to the user in question whether to convert to MP3. Remember, since
>> MP3 is a lossy format, what is lost in the conversion to MP3 is lost
>> forever
>> and can never be recovered, not even by converting back to wav.
>> Not only that, but the MP3 technology is covered by various patents, so
>> allowing it to be used would no doubt cost the developers money for each
>> copy they sold.
>> Jayson
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Johnny Lam" <johnnybrl at gmail.com>
>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>  Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 10:38 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] speaking of dectalk
>>
>>
>> > 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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