[DECtalk] Obtaining all the TruVoice languages

brandon T brandongold98 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 23:19:19 EDT 2016


Hello,

Were these free engines?

If so, I'd be interested to try it too please.

Thanks,

Brandon

On 3/29/16, Guillem León <guilevi2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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