[DECtalk] DECTAlk 4.4 Public Domain?

Pitermach pitermach at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 08:47:23 EST 2012


Actually yeah. The driver was written by Tyler and I sort of helped him 
out with it. The first version only did Paul and had sonic to speed the 
rate up even more. I asked him to add voices, and that's the newer 
version where sonic had to be removed because it was crashing things 
apparently.

On 2012-02-01 13:52, Raymond Grote wrote:
> Hi,
> I was under the impression that both Dectalks were the same engine, 
> just different versions of the driver, and the newer one supported 
> voices but the older one didn't?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pitermach" <pitermach at gmail.com>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 5:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] DECTAlk 4.4 Public Domain?
>
>
>> About the issue with the second dectalk, what happens is almost every 
>> parameter is actually changed, except the pitch and inflection, so 
>> after you change voices you just need to manually raise the pitch or 
>> what ever to set it straight.
>>
>> On 2012-02-01 03:18, Blake Roberts wrote:
>>> Doris,
>>> I discovered the other day that two Dectalks for NVDA exist. I was 
>>> able to
>>> try both out after obtaining them and reinstalling NVDA. Both 
>>> NVDA-specific
>>> Dectalks have issues. In the first one, only Paul is available as a 
>>> voice.
>>> To me, that version of Dectalk for NVDA sounds similar to 4.4, 
>>> though I have
>>> no idea what DT version it is based on. The second Dectalk for NVDA 
>>> lists
>>> all 9 voices, but apparently is based on another version of Dectalk. 
>>> Some
>>> of those voices sound, um, different. Example: Kipp sounds like he's 
>>> going
>>> through puberty or something similar. If anyone wants to experiment 
>>> with/use
>>> Dectalk for NVDA, write me off-list. As far as  I know, Dectalk for 
>>> NVDA is
>>> not officially supported by the NVDA developers and I don't know who 
>>> created
>>> Dectalks for NVDA.
>>>
>>> Regarding Dectalk for Jaws, there is Dectalk Access32. Problem: Freedom
>>> Scientific broke Dectalk Access32 functionality in an earlier 
>>> version of
>>> Jaws. Since a Jaws-specific version of Dectalk Access32 is no longer 
>>> sold or
>>> supported by FS, I sort of understand why  Freedom Scientific won't 
>>> fix the
>>> problem. Another member of this list found a workaround to make Dectalk
>>> Access32 work with Jaws which involves uninstalling Eloquence.
>>> Blake
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>>> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Doris and Chris
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 8:56 PM
>>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>>> Subject: [DECtalk] DECTAlk 4.4 Public Domain?
>>>
>>> with all the discussion of singing dectalks, it was a couple of times
>>> mentioned that dectalk version 4.4 is in the public domain.
>>>
>>> Is there a version of this or can one be made available that works with
>>> screenreaders?
>>>
>>> I enjoy the dectalk songs I have heard and am amazed at the 
>>> creativity and
>>> finesse and perfection that goes into those songs but this is 
>>> nothing I have
>>> any interst in persuing myself .
>>>
>>> I like dectalk for its clear speech and low footprint on older 
>>> systems and I
>>> would love to have a working version to use with my screenreaders, 
>>> i.e. jaws
>>> and nvda. For nvda especialy it would be nice to have a free dectalk
>>> version. nvda comes with espeak, which is free and open source. 
>>> espeak is
>>> certainly usable and I like its responsibeness but dectalk has much 
>>> clearer
>>> speech and would be much easier to understand for those used to more 
>>> human
>>> sounding synths.
>>>
>>> With all the time and energy devoted to making dectalk sing and talking
>>> about this, if there is a public domain version of dectalk 
>>> available, could
>>> some of the time and energy be devoted to giving us a free dectalk 
>>> to just
>>> use with screenreaders or a free sapi version?
>>> I do not know what would go into this but I'd like to see something 
>>> that is
>>> usable for the broader masses and especialy for nvda users.
>>> nvda is coming of age and a decent free synth with it would be such a
>>> blessing!
>>>
>>> Doris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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