[DECtalk] purpose of the other DECtalk functionalities?

Mohamed malhajamy at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 17:31:25 EDT 2015


What about playing wav files? Did that serve a purpose back in those days?

On 09/17/15 01:07 PM, Edward Bruckert via Dectalk wrote:
> yes inade a typo lazy and yes dectalk was used in telephone response systems one
> was a bill collection business at the time dectalk achieved
> a better result — more intimidating
>> On Sep 17, 2015, at 4:32 AM, Piotr Machacz via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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>> I would assume one of the main applications for dectalk, when it was starting to be developed, would be in various telephony applications, so maybe this is why those features exist.
>>
>>> On 17 Sep 2015, at 10:30, Lowell Prange via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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>>> lazy.
>>>
>>> based on the keys proximal to the characters he typed.
>>>
>>> On 09/16/2015 02:22 PM, Ulysses Garcia via Dectalk wrote:
>>>> Good question.
>>>> I do not understand what ;azt c means. Could you kindly elaborate?
>>>> Many thanks.
>>>>
>>>> On 16/09/2015 13:48, Edward Bruckert via Dectalk wrote:
>>>>> simple answer — we were ;azt c
>>>>>> On Sep 16, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi guys, I'm wondering something. So, why exactly were the functionalities like dialing phone numbers, generating tones, and playing wav files ported to DECtalk software? I know that they might have served a purpose in the days of DECtalk hardware, but why exactly were they ported to the software DECtalk?
>>>>>> Thanks.
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