[DECtalk] Obtaining all the TruVoice languages

Guillem León guilevi2000 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 18:52:12 EDT 2016


They are unstable indeed, but for rendering text they're usually pretty OK. I actually might try on an older operating system, it might work a bit better then. I have a Windows 98 machine set up so I can probably try it out on there if I get it.

> On 30 Mar 2016, at 00:49, jake mcmahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> it depends on where you get it.  but fact is, these engines are not stable at all.  They tend to crash a lot.
> 
> On 3/29/2016 6:49 PM, brandon T wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Even if you have it, don't they have a password on them, either to
>> install or use?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Brandon
>> 
>> On 3/29/16, jake mcmahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> hang on a second.  I might have it.
>>> 
>>> On 3/29/2016 6:34 PM, Guillem León wrote:
>>>> Yep, that's the one. It was developed by Centigram, and distributed by
>>>> AISquared if I'm not mistaken. There are FTP links to the file everywhere,
>>>> but of course that ftp site has been dead for a long time.
>>>> 
>>>>> On 30 Mar 2016, at 00:32, jake mcmahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> ou must be talking about the one from centigram communications corp
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 3/29/2016 5:39 PM, Guillem León wrote:
>>>>>> No. LHTTS3000 is different, and pretty easy to obtain. I'm talking about
>>>>>> the older TruVoice which had 10 voices for each language, 8 male and 2
>>>>>> female. The English-only installer is called tv_enua.exe, and the
>>>>>> installer with all the languages was originally Truvoice.exe, but I am
>>>>>> not able to find it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 29 Mar 2016, at 17:49, Carlos Fernandez <cf530a at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> A question--are you referring to the tts3000 engine? This was also
>>>>>>> written by L&H, and sounds quite similar. It has two voices for each
>>>>>>> language, and the files to install them are in the archive share (and I
>>>>>>> can post them). If you're referring to something else, however, let me
>>>>>>> know and I'll do my best.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Carlos
>>>>>>> On 3/29/2016 04:34, Guillem León wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>> I have been looking for TruVoice for a while, but I have only managed
>>>>>>>> to find the American English version (TV_ENUA.EXE). I was wondering if
>>>>>>>> anyone on this list still has access to all the other languages.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thank you.
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