[DECtalk] TEST
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Dectalk at aol.com
Tue Jun 28 12:58:54 EDT 2011
You miss understood me. I'm not concerned about being removed from the
list. Corine in no way wants anyone to see the prototype. So I was saying,
the link to the prototype will only work until Corine tells Dave to take it
down. Or, the site my crash.
SNOOPI BOTTEN
In a message dated 6/28/2011 11:10:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ratguy at insightbb.com writes:
Hi,
Let me just repeat something after all this discussion. Snoopi, you are
not
being removed from this list. I am the only person on Earth with the
authority to remove people from this list or do any other administrative
job. And as far as I'm concerned, this whole discussion is valuable.
Nobody
will be removed from this list for anything they said or may say on this
topic.
I want to state something else too. As I see it, there are several schools
of DECtalk users and fans. There are some who like the DECtalk speech and
probably would use it with their screen reader if they could, or maybe use
it along with a text to MP3 program such as Text Aloud, but don't have any
other more elaborate use for it. Then there are those who think it's cool
that DECtalk can sing and do all this neat stuff and enjoy listening to
others' creations, but don't have a clue how to actually make DECtalk do
any
of those things. Then there are probably several classes of more advanced
DECtalk users who, at the high end, could probably transcribe arbitrary
text
into phonemes in their sleep. These are the people making the elaborate
DECtalk songs and skits. And finally, there are the users with
disabilities
requiring them to use DECtalk to speak and/or sing. These users almost
certainly fit into all the previous classes of users I've discussed. I fit
somewhere in the third class of users, the more advanced DECtalkists. So
as
you can see, this SAPI is obviously targeted toward the more basic user,
who
just wants to use it with their screen reader or other SAPI-enabled
applications, nothing more.
Regarding the Speak windows, yes it's true that new hardware and new
operating systems might come along under which the Speak windows won't
run.
However, all is not truly lost even then. As long as, say, a virtual
machine
running XP can run under whatever native hardware/OS is being used, Speak
can then be run under that. Not the most ideal solution I do admit, but
still, it's better than nothing.
I personally would like to see the SAPI provide all DECtalk's features,
but
it's clear to me that, for whatever reason, that's not going to happen.
Jayson
----- Original Message -----
From: <Dectalk at aol.com>
To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] TEST
> _http://davesvideoservicesco.startlogic.com/test2/_
> (http://davesvideoservicesco.startlogic.com/test2/)
>
> Ok, we have an unstable prototype that keeps crashing. I'm forcing
Dave
> to keep it up until Corine tells him to remove it. It talks, but I
> haven't
> been able to get it to say anything this morning.
>
> Basically the plan is to reset it to Klattalk settings but call it
> Dectalk
> Classic. And, it won't sing.
>
>
> SNOOPI BOTTEN
>
>
> In a message dated 6/28/2011 8:42:05 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> bmisch2002 at gmail.com writes:
>
> so how is that version coming along and are the other languages going
to
> be included or just us english?
>
>
> On Jun 27, 2011, at 6:33 PM, FRIDO ORDEMANN wrote:
>
>
>
>
> There are other users of DECtalk than those who use it for singing.
>
>
> ____________________________________
> From: "_Dectalk at aol.com_ (mailto:Dectalk at aol.com) " <_Dectalk at aol.com_
> (mailto:Dectalk at aol.com) >
> To: _dectalk at bluegrasspals.com_ (mailto:dectalk at bluegrasspals.com)
> Sent: Mon, June 27, 2011 2:10:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] TEST
>
> Actually I was scared I was removed for exploding on the list last
night.
> I also find it odd that Corine never apologized for her misleading post.
> I'm still in total shock at how her post was worded. And to post that
on
> the list when we all have a speak window or other form of Dectalk.
Heck,
> if
> I did have a singing SAPI, why would anyone buy her non-singing
version?
>
> That post just totally made no sense to me. I still feel bad about my
> response, but I was and still am angry.
>
>
> SNOOPI BOTTEN
>
>
> In a message dated 6/27/2011 1:22:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> _linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com_ (mailto:linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com) writes:
>
> Your message came through. It's all good.
>
> Alex
>
> On 6/27/2011 12:58 PM, _Dectalk at aol.com_ (mailto:Dectalk at aol.com)
wrote:
> My mail got too full, so I'm just making sure everything is ok.
>
>
> SNOOPI BOTTEN
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