[DECtalk] DECTALK STORE

Thu Jul 19 15:04:32 EDT 2012

In my experience, the easiest way to have text read in the speak window is
to write text in notepad and save with a .en extension. DT 4.4 should open
and play the file automatically.
Blake

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From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Roger devin Prater
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:30 PM
To: DECtalk Discussions
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] DECTALK STORE

Hmm, well I now have the 4.40 speak Window, oh and if anyone ever needs it,
I will post a tutorial about how to use it well with NVDA, the buttons I
mean. I don't know how to get it to actually read the text in the edit box
of the window though. Perhaps someone could, or already has, worked on that?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dectalk at aol.com 
To: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] DECTALK STORE

I use Dectalk 4.40 Speak Window.  Because I do CDs and concerts, I really
don't want to switch because I can make it sound really human.  On July 30th
I might be singing with Peter Yarrow again, and it would be too weird to be
using 2 different versions of Dectalk.  And live on stage I need to be very
fast, if I switch versions, how do I know a command won't create feedback.

And let me make another point.  If you look on youtube, you will find that
I'm not the only disabled entertainer.  None of us would be able to do what
we do without the fancy features of Dectalk.  I would rather use Dectalk
4.40 because it is the closest I can get to Dennis Klatt.  I never met him,
but his work gave my life meaning.  I have to believe that he would never
want the singing feature removed from Dectalk.  I had too many kids light up
when they learned that they can sing with Dectalk.  It's a gift from Dennis
and I love to pass it on.

SNOOPI BOTTEN 

In a message dated 7/19/2012 9:28:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
r.d.t.prater at gmail.com writes:

So I'm wondering, do you use the older speak window of 4.3 or whatever it
is? Yeah I think its 4.3 which is the popular ones, but now that this new
one has come out, will you start using this one, or still use the more
popular one?

Sent from my iPod

On Jul 19, 2012, at 8:23 AM, Dectalk at aol.com wrote:

http://theflameofhope.co/STORE.html

Hi, I don't think I ever mentioned this on the listserv because I didn't
know I could.  As some of you know, I have a website, and for the longest
time almost everything was free with hopes for donations.  Well, people were
getting free files but never donating.  So sadly I made some changes.  I
only say sadly because kids who can't talk can only sing by using Dectalk,
so I badly wanted kids to have free access to any song they wanted so they
could sing just like any other child.  It got totally abused, so I made some
changes. 

I have one announcement that I'm still pinching myself over because I can't
believe I'm being allowed to do this without a fight.  When Blake and I were
working for Enable Rehab, we were given a beta Dectalk SAPI that could sing.
Well, I decided to release it for free because I was tired of Corine
publicly saying she didn't have the source code to make it sing.
Internally, she alone decided to remove the singing feature and tell that
lie.  Corine got wind that I was releasing the beta Dectalk SAPI, and she
relayed a message to me saying she didn't care and wished me well.  It
slightly takes the fun out of releasing it, but ok.

I'm not charging for the SAPI because the singing part is unstable, plus I
want it free anyway.  So, you get the SAPI, the Speak Window, a new blind
friendly Speak Window, dictionary tools, instructions that Blake Roberts
wrote, and help support.  So, you can get the beta from me for free with
instructions and support, or you can pay $24.95 to Enable Rehab and get no
instructions or support.  And remember, if you buy "DECTALK READER 1" from
Enable Rehab, you don't get what you pay for, you get Dectalk 4.61.  

Anyway, my songs are all $1.50.  I've been sick for a month so I haven't
been doing new songs for a while.  I'm still recovering, but by mid August
I'm hoping to be doing songs again.  I plan on doing top 40 songs.

So I hope you all check out my store and share it with others.

SNOOPI BOTTEN 

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