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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>That's the $64000.00 question. I have a Dectalk
4.0 Speak Window that I down loaded from the internet years ago. To my
ears, it sounds as close to the Dennis Klatt hardware version as you can
get. When Fonix bought Dectalk, they never god the files that date back as
far as mine does. Somehow, the earliest software version that Fonix has
was already changed, but no one knows by who or why. So, at best you end
up with a less than desirable quality version of Dectalk.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Dennis use to give out the source code for Dectalk, it
was never meant to be private. I've talked with Corine about this a few
times. From what I understand, she believes that someone knows how or has
a decompiled version of the 4.40 Dectalk Speak Window. If we ever track it
down, we want to create and release a version of that
quality.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>So every so often I go fishing in hopes of finding
someone who can decompile it. I have 2 friends that could crack it, but
they won't out of fear of being in big trouble. They both fail to
understand that they would be helping in a big way. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>So I think our only hope is finding a person that both
knew Dennis and has those files. So every so often I ask to see if I might
get lucky on behalf of Fonix.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>SNOOPI BOTTEN </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 2/16/2007 5:18:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
guiaccess@covad.net writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=+1><B>Why would Fonix want to do
this? Have they not the source code for DECtalk since they own
it?</B></FONT></DIV>
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size=+1><B>Would that work on the Dectalk 4.0 speak window? Fonix,
Gallaudet, and myself are forever trying to decompile it. Those codes
are no where to be found and we want to decompile the Speak Window to access
the dell files.</B></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=+1>In a
message dated 2/16/2007 3:55:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
guiaccess@covad.net writes:</FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial color=#000000
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-1>I spent many hours long
ago reverse engineering the format of the DECtalk dictionary.
Surprisingly, the format is quite simple. I wrote some code to dump
the contents of a DECtalk dictionary; I should dig it
up.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Access</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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size=-1>here's an url for making pronunciation dictionaries. not
sure if this is what you are talking about. When I tried to look
at the dectalk.dic in notepad. It looked like garbage.
(smiles)</FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-1></FONT>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-1><B>From:</B></FONT>
<A title=mailto:Dectalk@aol.com href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com"><FONT
face=Arial color=#000000 size=-1>Dectalk@aol.com</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Arial color=#000000 size=-1></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-1><B>To:</B></FONT>
<A title=mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com"><FONT face=Arial color=#000000
size=-1>dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Arial
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-1><B>Sent:</B>
Friday, February 16, 2007 10:43 AM</FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-1><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[DECtalk] making a better way to put in notes</FONT><BR><FONT
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=+1><B>AActually if
someone ever figures out how to access the Dectalk Dictionary, you
can. Take like the C notes. You could assign "LC" to
"1" then "LCS" to "2", and "MC" to "13", then "MCS" to "14" and
so on. I want to do this myself but I can't access to
dictionary. I'm glad I never did it though or my songs wouldn't
work on all Dectalk versions.</B></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=+1>In a message dated
2/16/2007 9:48:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, taz0801@charter.net
writes:</FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-1></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-1>what if we had a
better way to put in notes? instead of remembering numbers you
could 'write the following. [ao<2bf,qn>ll<3bf,qn>]
tell me what you guys think.</FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial
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