[DECtalk] getting the software dectalk run time for linux working with any linux screen reader

Carlos Fernandez cf530a at gmail.com
Fri Jul 11 23:49:31 EDT 2014


You could download the code, see what is required to hook it up to 
speech dispatcher, and that should be all that is required. I'm sure the 
developers would like that.

Carlos
On 7/11/2014 22:44, Alex H. wrote:
> Hey Nick,
>
> Yep, tried contacting Fonix a few times. First two, I didn't get any
> response. The thrid and final, they said they'd be able to package me
> up a copy of DT 5 and asked how many licenses I wanted. After I
> elaborated and said what OS I was using and only one single personal
> use license ...
>
> silence. I followed up two weeks later, and got nothing. So screw
> Fonix. They had their chance, and fonixTalk sucks and oh well. Maybe
> SpeechPlayer can be ported for Linux. *sigh*
>
> On 7/11/14, Nick Gawronski <nick at nickgawronski.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I bought the dectalk run time software a long time ago from Fonix
>> and am totally against getting software if you have to go breaking the
>> law to get it as who knows what else that software could have in it.
>> Would contacting Fonix about the newest software dectalk for linux do
>> any good?  I think I remember someone else on this list contacting
>> someone at Fonix about a newer dectalk demo that ran under windows but
>> not sure who it was or what they managed to get out of it.  If anyone on
>> this list has any contacts at Fonix please pass along this message to
>> them as I would not mind buying a good quality synthisizer for this
>> operating system.  Nick Gawronski
>> On 7/11/2014 2:18 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
>>> The short version is no, it's not going to happen.  TTSynth was basically
>>> a
>>> prepackaged DECtalk for Linux but is now abandoned.  The Windows software
>>> version will never work with Linux.  Since TTSynth is no longer supported
>>> and was commercial, you aren't going to find it.  Even if you found it
>>> illegally, it's precompiled so would probably not work with newer
>>> libraries.
>>>    It suffers from the same issues as IBM Viavoice in that it only runs on
>>> very old 32-bit libraries which are no longer supported.  Your only
>>> software
>>> choices for Speakup are ESpeak and FLite.  Besides, all software synths
>>> require a Speakup connector and I don't know if the ones for ViaVoice or
>>> TTSynth are even still downloadable.
>>>
>>> On 2014-07-10 06:38 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
>>>> Hi, I have a dectalk express I am using on my desktop with both windows
>>>> and
>>>> linux installed using the speakup screen reader and was just wondering
>>>> if
>>>> anyone here has managed to get the linux software version of dectalk
>>>> working
>>>> with any linux screen reader?  I remember a long time ago someone had
>>>> managed to do this but am not sure what they did to make this happen.
>>>> Nick
>>>> Gawronski
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