[DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows

[Jayson Smith]

Hi again,

As for converting old files to wav, is this just a raw sound file with no 
header? SoX might be able to do what you want. I know APH Studio Recorder 
has support for opening raw files. Not sure if you can specify byte 
ordering.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ebruckert Bruckert" <edbruckert at gmail.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows


>    I'm busy today but I will send versions of the user Dic. T
> On in all honesty I can't remember if there were different versions, but
> there certainly weren't many.
> One of the main differences in the know of version was I tuned the 
> frication
> or high-frequency noise is stronger because of signal loss going to the
> transmitters through regular telephone lines. I am slowly working on a new
> version I want your feedback but understand this is a stepwise process so 
> I
> need feedback on both what you like and what you don't like. Attached is a
> very short piece of Paul. The way the gains of the vocal track have to be
> tuned I'm only going to focus on Paul or perhaps a different voice if 
> you'd
> prefer until we get closer to what we want. I'm almost afraid to mention
> something, but I have archived the last research DECtalk version that 
> Dennis
> was working on when he died, I may try to get it running obviously it was
> never finished. In that regard does anybody know of a utility that can
> convert an old 16 bit sound file into a wave file?
>
> Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I downloaded that but it doesn't seem to work for the Speak43 window. I
>> assume that means each version of DECtalk has its own dictionary format. 
>> To
>> me, that seems a bit weird and breaks forward and backward compatibility.
>> But whatever.
>> Jayson
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Alex H." <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com>
>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 6:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows
>>
>>
>>  > Hi Jayson,
>> >
>> > I know there's a utility to make user dictionaries for the DECTalk
>> > USB, and you can download the files on Access Solutions' website. I
>> > don't know if they'd work on the demo Speak windows though.
>> >
>> > Alex
>> >
>> > On 5/15/11, 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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