[DECtalk] Elan sayso demo

[Piotr Machacz]

I first found it on a Polish forum years ago, then lost the file, then 
found it again on a russian one. The original link, which was also 
hosted on Dropbox is now dead but I managed to find it on one of my drives.
To your second question, no, but I do know the person who created it who 
wants to remain anonymous. I just helped with testing, sent the links 
out and occasionally prodded development forward. It actually still 
needs work but said person "can't be bothered" right now... So we'll see.
On 1/25/2015 6:48 AM, Jake Gross via Dectalk wrote:
> Thank you. Where did you find this?
> p.s. Are you the same person who created the softvoice nvda addon?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Blake Roberts via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
> To: "'DECtalk'" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
> Date sent: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:08:48 -0500
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Elan sayso demo
>
> Very interesting find! Thanks for posting about it. These voices from 
> 2004
> might not be fully compatible with Windows 7. I say might because 
> selecting
> the voices in JAWS and NVDA results in silence and JAWS appears to crash.
> However, I can use the Elan voices in TextAloud with no problems at all.
> Strange... Although I will probably end up uninstalling them soon, I 
> might
> reinstall them in the future. Since the installer was created prior to
> Windows 7, I suppose difficulties like the ones I experience can be
> anticipated.
> Blake
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Piotr
> Machacz via Dectalk
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:15 AM
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> Subject: [DECtalk] Elan sayso demo
>
> Since people are sharing their finds, here's something kind of
> interesting. This is a 2004 or there abouts demo of Acapela Elan sayso
> TTS. Elan speech had at this point purchased another company, Digalo,
> and also included their engines and they also made a few of their own.
> This  is a demo that you could get for free from Elan by request that
> includes all of their offerings, plus documentation as well as SAPI 4
> and 5 API's. It includes quite a few voices in many languages, including
> very old versions of Aaron, Graham and Lucy, as well as others that
> you've probably never heard before. The catch? It's a 30-day trial,
> except someone didn't check the code right so as a result once the demo
> runs out, you can just uninstall and install it again and you'll get
> another 30 days. It definitely installs and works on XP, I'm not sure
> about newer WIndows versions.
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1584584/ela%20sayso%20tts.7z
>
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