[DECtalk] New participant

[Jason J.G. White]

Thank you, Karen and Miguel.

The version from GitHub works for me with Orca as well. Emacspeak has a 
speech server for it which was originally written for the Fonix 
Corporation releases, but which T.V. Raman has recently revised. It's 
easy enough to build if you have a C development environment on your 
Linux system.

On 3/2/24 09:37, Miguel Villagomez wrote:
> Welcome, Jason!
> It's interesting to hear your DECtalk usage background over the years. 
> As I recall, a French version of DECtalk wasn't available until the 
> early 2000s when version 4.6.1 was released by Force Computers. 
> Interestingly though, back in the 90s, Creative Labs, who used a 
> version of DECtalk in their SoundBlaster cards for speech synthesis 
> using TextAssist, did offer a French language edition of the synthesizer.
> Also, since you've been following the DECtalk revival project, you 
> might be interested to know that we actually have 64-bit x86 code 
> running under newer Linux kernels. Granted you do have to do some 
> terminal work to get it to compile, but when it works, it works 
> wonderfully! In fact I've been using it with Orca as of late.
>
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