[DECtalk] DECtalk versions (was Weather dectalk)

[Alex H.]

I should have specified. Not "public domain" but basically just
available for demoing purposes, like the current FonixTalk is on
Fonix's website. They state over and over that it's a demo, and the
DLL's are tied to that specific application ID.

Alex

On 7/11/11, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ed, Snoopi, Blake, or Corine, please correct me if anything I say in this
> message is wrong.
>
> As far as I know, Fonix owns the rights to all versions of DECtalk ever
> produced, all the way back to the very first copy ever compiled, or at least
> the oldest copy that still exists anywhere anyway. Nothing that has DECtalk
> code in it is public domain, as the DECtalk code is not public domain.
>
> As far as versions go, it's anybody's guess what happened to the 4.5X
> versions. Ed might have more insight on this. It could be, for example, that
> Digital was working on one or more versions to be labeled 4.5X but these
> versions never saw public release, and when Force got the code they thought
> they'd made enough changes to bump the version number up to 4.6X. Or
> possibly Force had some internal alpha/beta versions numbered 4.5X and made
> the public releases 4.6X. One interesting thing about version numbers is
> that you never really know how they came to be what they are unless you know
> someone who was there at the time or can find proof. For instance, some of
> you may be familiar with the BEX word processing and Braille translation
> software for the Apple II line of computers. This software was produced by
> Raised Dot Computing. A few years ago I was going through archived RDC
> newsletters and found out something interesting. Apparently the first
> private beta version of BEX was version 1.0. There was a second private beta
> with a version number of 1.5. Because of this, BEX's first public release
> was version 2.0.
> Jayson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex H." <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Weather dectalk
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> That's probably right. I know there are a lot of minor versions of DT
>> in the 4.4x version, and they didn't have a huge impact on sound, but
>> when stuff hit 4.61 things went down the tubes, thanks to Force
>> Computers Inc. The Fonix saved the day, sort of.
>>
>> BTW, does anyone know who currently has all the speak demos or the
>> rights to them now? I'd shudder to think that there's little minor
>> versions and the whole 4.5x version of DT that has no demos accounted
>> for, and of course DT 5.0. I'm thinking if they're public domain, even
>> with some non-decompilable code for DT in them, they should be
>> mirrored and available to try.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On 7/11/11, jake mcmahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I heard this a while back.  The version of dectalk that the noaa weather
>>> service used was dectalk 4.46, and the year on the noaa website in
>>> dectalk's history said 1997.  So I am beginning to think that that
>>> version was released then or before.
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