[DECtalk] Elan sayso demo

[jake mcmahan]

speaking of these voices, there was a version of the Lh voices for sapi 
4 that included michael and michelle.  It also included the other 10 
voices.  this version came with kurzweil version 5.  I was wondering if 
anyone has seen it available.  Also, does anyone happen to have a demo 
coppy of the window bridge 2000 by synthavoice?  My friend and I are 
researching pld stuff.  And it is also my understanding that openbook5 
came with the acuvoice speech synthesizer.
On 1/25/2015 4:58 AM, Piotr Machacz via Dectalk wrote:
> 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
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>>
>> 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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