[DECtalk] I found some old interesting DECtalk stuff, and some questions

Jayson Smith jaybird at bluegrasspals.com
Thu Jun 27 21:00:20 EDT 2019


This originally went to the sender only. Sorry about that!


Hi,


I know this is totally wishful thinking, but I wish somebody could find 
the source code for 4.3 and do something with it. Imho that was the best 
of the software DECtalk versions. Version 4.4 was fine, but if I 
remember correctly, the B sound was a bit funny in that version. I think 
4.2CD was my all around favorite version, but AFAIK that only ran on the 
DECtalk Express, etc.

Jayson

On 6/26/2019 3:44 PM, Tom Kopec wrote:
> I believe 4.3 was the core of the first software version. I haven't 
> dug up all my old notes yet.
>
> On 6/26/2019 3:29 PM, Mohamed Al-Hajamy wrote:
>> Was 4.3 the first software version of DECtalk?
>>
>> On 6/26/2019 7:24 AM, Tom Kopec wrote:
>>> DECTalk-PC (both versions) were ISA bus devices. If I recall, the 
>>> driver could sprout a fake COM port for application access.
>>>
>>> In the mid-1990s we had kicked around the idea of a PCI version of 
>>> DECTalk-PC.. but the DECTalk Express was serving the hardware market 
>>> well, and we decided to take advantage of PC performance increases 
>>> and focus on a software-only solution.
>>>
>>> My foggy recollection is that the last version of DECTalk developed 
>>> within DEC/Compaq was 4.3 ... I left when the product line moved to 
>>> Fonix, and have had very limited contact with it since then.
>>>
>>>
>>> ...tom
>>>
>>>
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