<html><head><base href="x-msg://590/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">i got it working back then too. <div><br><div><div>On Jan 29, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Pitermach wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div id="role_body" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" rightmargin="7" topmargin="7" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt; "><div><font size="2">I remember getting, off some random person's ftp site, dectalk access 32 v4.6. now the file dates were at around 2004. Many people tolled me this would work on vista, so not exactly keen on trying it I eventually did, only to find it sounded perfectly normal. While if I would run dt on my nokia phone with ms I would get that crappy voice you just mentioned, I'd say we agreed with each other at this point. smile.</font></div><div><font size="2">BTW, ever heard that 4.64 sing? well, it isn't any better than talking.</font></div><div><font size="2"></font> </div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="Dectalk@aol.com" href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com">Dectalk@aol.com</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Saturday, January 29, 2011 4:12 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [DECtalk] sapi dectalk</div><div><br></div><font id="role_document" color="#000000" size="4" face="Arial"><div><strong><font size="4">I got an e-mail saying it was 4.64. I wish it would have been anything before that.</font></strong></div><div><strong><font size="4"></font></strong> </div><div><strong><font size="4">4.64 actually tells me nothing. See, I have 4.64 in my devices. One is fine, the other I swear can't be 4.64 because it acts weird. The device company claims they can't touch Dectalk because they have a contract and they say both versions are the same. I laugh because if you do them side by side with a voice string, and have them read the very same things, like if you have something that is an entire paragraph long, the newer 4.64 has a glitch where if you put in a rest, like [_<500>] or whatever, about 3 sentences later the voice just totally drops in pitch for like 2 words. It sounds horrible! There are other differences as well.</font></strong></div><div> </div><div><strong><font size="4">So I'm totally holding my breathe because from what I know, it's a gamble.</font></strong></div><div> </div><div><strong><font size="4">I'm thinking the device company tampered with Dectalk even though they are contracted not to. If I'm right, this 4.64 version should be great! But there is no way of knowing. And yes, my new device with 4.64 sounds depressed. The company swears up and down that they didn't touch anything and it's all in my head. (Right) I know my stuff and believe me, one of the 4.64's is not 4.64.</font></strong></div><div> </div><div><strong><font size="4">I really wish it would have been any version before 4.64 because now I gotta wait and hope it's the true 4.64 that does not sound depressed.</font></strong></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><strong><font size="4">SNOOPI BOTTEN<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></strong> </div><div> </div><div><div>In a message dated 1/29/2011 9:02:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:pitermach@gmail.com">pitermach@gmail.com</a>writes:</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; "><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial" style="background-color: transparent; "><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi, I''m excited and all, but I havea question. WIll this sound like the dt in window-eyes or access32, oriw ill it be that sucky one, say, code factory uses? I'm asking because the ladder is unbearable for me. Dennis, for instance, who's on e of my favourite voices now doesn't have that much intonation, all the voices sound like they're depressed or something. If it'll sound like that, then no matter how tempting it'd be to have dt in klango or nvda I'll probably pass up on it.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">-----------------<br>Peter Mahach<br><a title="mailto:|pitermach@gmail.com" href="mailto:%7Cpitermach@gmail.com">|pitermach@gmail.com</a><br>msn:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="mailto:pitermach00@hotmail.com" href="mailto:pitermach00@hotmail.com">pitermach00@hotmail.com</a><br>skype (not very often): pitermach<br>twitter:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="http://www.twitter.com/pitermach" href="http://www.twitter.com/pitermach">http://www.twitter.com/pitermach</a><br>webpage:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="http://pmsworld.weisi4u.de/" href="http://pmsworld.weisi4u.de/">http://pmsworld.weisi4u.de/</a><br></font></div><br><br>__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __________<br><br>The message was checked by ESET Smart Security.<br><br><a title="http://www.eset.com/" href="http://www.eset.com/">http://www.eset.com</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>DECtalk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><a href="http://jaybird.no-ip.info/mailman/listinfo/dectalk">http://jaybird.no-ip.info/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a><br></font></blockquote></div></font><br><br>__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __________<br><br>The message was checked by ESET Smart Security.<br><br><a href="http://www.eset.com">http://www.eset.com</a><br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><hr><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>_______________________________________________<br>DECtalk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><a href="http://jaybird.no-ip.info/mailman/listinfo/dectalk">http://jaybird.no-ip.info/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a><br><br><br><br>__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __________<br><br>The message was checked by ESET Smart Security.<br><br><a href="http://www.eset.com">http://www.eset.com</a><br><br></blockquote><br><br>__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __________<br><br>The message was checked by ESET Smart Security.<br><br><a href="http://www.eset.com">http://www.eset.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>DECtalk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><a href="http://jaybird.no-ip.info/mailman/listinfo/dectalk">http://jaybird.no-ip.info/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>