[DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows

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I'll post some samples as soon as I'm able to test all the voices. 



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From: Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
To: DECtalk Discussions <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Tue, May 17, 2011 8:03:52 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows

i know fs's version of access 32 was version 4.41 of dectalk 

On May 16, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any chance we could hear a sample of the 4.3 SAPI as it currently 
> stands? The reason is, if it's the same as the 4.3 Speak window which has 
> been distributed all over the net for years, I'm sure that same sounding 
> DECtalk turned into a SAPI would be wonderful news to the entire 
> DECtalk-loving community. Corine, do you have any audio samples of the 
> DECtalk sound you remember using? It'd be interesting to hear those and 
> compare it to the 4.3 we all know and love.
> 
> As far as what we mean by "Classic," I personally would say anything from 
> 4.0 through 4.4 falls into that category. I'm not sure what version of 
> DECtalk the Access32 software product used, but by then there were some 
> changes I didn't like. Of course, others on this list may differ in what 
> they would consider "classic DECtalk."
> 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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