[DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

I know what you mean. To me at least, the DTC01 sounds different from 
anything DECtalk 4.0 or later. I prefer the later sound from 4.0 through 4.4 
or so, but that's just personal preference.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corine Bickley" <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows


> What do you mean by classic? There have been many different versions
> of DECtalk over the years. I am most familiar with the one that Dennis
> Klatt used at MIT when Martha and I were members of the Speech Group
> there headed by Prof. Ken Stevens, You may favor a different version,
> perhaps one that was put out by DEC, or SmartModular, or Force, or
> modified by one of the companies that licensed DECtalk for sale with a
> particular screen reader. I don't have good information about all
> those versions, only my memory of the one we used at MIT.
>
> We (Enable) have a couple of versions of DECtalk that we are
> considering for release as "SAPI DECtalk". One older one, 4.3, has
> been SAPI-ized and works with jvda and JAWS, it seems, but I have to
> tune up the voices to match the version of DECtalk that we used at
> MIT. We also need to test 4.3 with various current operating systems
> and screen readers. The original DECtalk was written for VAX computers
> (sold by DEC and used at MIT). The Windows versions do not sound the
> same as the VAX version, due to differences in the way C code is
> implemented on different platforms.
>
> I'll leave it to others to compare the voice quality to versions you
> each use and prefer.
> corine
>
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Alex H. <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Corine,
>>
>> Does this mean that you have found a classic version of DECTAlk to use
>> for the sapi?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On 5/15/11, Corine Bickley <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu> wrote:
>>> Snoopi will be in charge of creating user dictionaries for Enable
>>> products, such as SAPI DECtalk. We're not ready yet to announce the
>>> release of SAPI DECtalk, but hope to be soon.
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how to create/generate/compile user dictionaries for 
>>>> the
>>>> Speak windows? I know back in the days of the DECtalk PC, it shipped 
>>>> with
>>>> software to take a properly-formatted text file and compile it into a
>>>> binary
>>>> dictionary file. I still have one of those files, and it doesn't work 
>>>> as a
>>>> user dictionary in Speak43. Are there tools out there to generate user
>>>> dictionaries, or are they pretty much just internal tools which should
>>>> have
>>>> been distributed but weren't? Snoopi, Ed, Corine, can anyone help here?
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
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