[DECtalk] DECTalk 4.2 Alpha

[Blake Roberts]

I changed the subject line for archival purposes. I can confirm the 
speak window contained in alphadt.zip will not run on Windows 10. When I 
run the executable, I am told: "This app can't run on your PC". I also 
agree with Tony that the zip is Alpha software, due to the name "alpha" 
in the zip filename.

Blake



On 8/12/2022 4:51 PM, Tony Morales wrote:
> This appears to be an Alpha DEC executable. Windows NT 4.0 did run on 
> Alpha DEC hardware.
>
> It would be fantastic to be able to emulate the appropriate hardware 
> so as to run this demo, given the software version of DECtalk in question.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
>
>
>
>> On Aug 12, 2022, at 1:32 PM, Jayson Smith <jaybird at bluegrasspals.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this executable is not meant to 
>> be run on a PC. It won't work on my system either.
>>
>> Jayson
>>
>> On 8/12/2022 3:07 PM, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Here is the link for decTalk 4.2
>>>
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/details/ALPHADT_ZIP
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> *On Behalf Of 
>>> *Aksel Leo Christoffersen
>>> *Sent:* Friday, August 12, 2022 14:10
>>> *To:* 'DECtalk' <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [DECtalk] using decTalk speak windows with screen readers
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Josh,
>>>
>>>
>>> First of, would you mind sending a link to that DECtalk 4.2 speak 
>>> window, because I’m quite sure that version doesn’t exist as software.
>>>
>>>
>>> Secondly, you can use the touch-cursor in JAWS to use the various 
>>> buttons in the speak windows, but I would recoment just entering the 
>>> appropriate voice commands to change the parameter you  want,, for 
>>> example change to Betty by using the command [:nb]. The touch-cursor 
>>> is very useful though, when you want to play the text you’ve 
>>> entered. When you activate the touch-cursor, and use the right arrow 
>>> to go through the objects in the window, you will at some point come 
>>> across several unlabelled buttons, right after an object, where JAWS 
>>> just says speaking rate. The first three buttons are play, pause and 
>>> stop, and I think the next nine are for the voices, but I can’t 
>>> remember which order they’re in.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards:
>>>
>>> Aksel Christoffersen
>>>
>>>
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