<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">is there a recording of this around? <div><br><div><div>On Feb 7, 2011, at 7:14 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Indeed it was happy birthday, son to his daughter Laura. Shortly after that someone in our group had a birthday so we programmed the DTC 01 to call him at three o'clock in the morning to wish him a happy birthday.<br><br>
The speech program was really meant as a test program and not an application. It is dumb as a stump and assumes any file fed to it is ASCII text.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alex H. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com">linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Happy birthday from Dennis Klatt. He introduced singing into DT<br>because he wanted to say happy birthday to his daughter in a special<br>
way. That's what I've heard.<br><br>I really can't comment on setting speak to open .en files with win7 as<br>I just use the builtin open function in speak directly. However, wasnt<br>there a playdec program written some years ago for the 4.3 program<br>
that would dump a txt or .dec file into speak by copying the file and<br>runnig speak? I think with a few lines of code changed, it should work<br>for .en files too.<br><br>HTH.<br><font color="#888888">alex<br></font>
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<div class="h5"><br>On 2/6/11, Brandon Misch <<a href="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com">bmisch2002@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> isn't it that song about poisoning pigions in the park? that was on an issue<br>> of playback magazine from 1991.<br>
><br>> On Feb 6, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Flint Million (iPod) wrote:<br>><br>>> The dos tools came with "moonlight in Vermont" in the demo app. That's the<br>>> first song I ever heard.<br>>><br>
>> Sent from my iPod<br>>><br>>> On Feb 6, 2011, at 5:46 PM, "Blake Roberts" <<a href="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net">beroberts@hughes.net</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>>> I know the answer to Ed's trivia question. I'll let you guys keep<br>
>>> guessing<br>>>> for a bit. No reason I should spoil this fun triviagame.<br>>>> Blake<br>>>> -----Original Message-----<br>>>> From: <a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a><br>
>>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>] On Behalf Of ebruckert<br>>>> Bruckert<br>>>> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 3:47 PM<br>>>> To: DECtalk Discussions<br>
>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] File association problem<br>>>><br>>>> Hello, I can't help you very well with changing file associations, but<br>>>> speak<br>>>> should be very happy with the.txt file that just tells it to you now<br>
>>> treated<br>>>> as normal ASCII text.<br>>>><br>>>> Trivia question for you all;<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> What was the first song DECtalk saying and why.<br>>>><br>
>>><br>>>><br>>>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Blake Roberts <<a href="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net">beroberts@hughes.net</a>><br>>>> wrote:<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> All,<br>
>>> I wrote about this problem before. I am writing again because no<br>>>> response<br>>>> has been received.<br>>>><br>>>> I use the Dectalk 4.40 speak window to program songs. This version<br>
>>> of the<br>>>> speak window plays files with an .en extension. On my new Windows 7<br>>>> computer, I am having problems setting up the EN file association.<br>>>><br>>>> Whenever I tell Windows to use speak.exe to launch EN files (either<br>
>>> via<br>>>> properties, change or the "Open With" dialog], Windows automatically<br>>>> assumes<br>>>> I want to use Windows Media Center for this file association. I<br>
>>> remember in<br>>>> Windows XP, there was a way to edit a file type manually. I have not<br>>>> yet<br>>>> found a similar tool in Windows 7.<br>>>><br>>>> I hope someone on-list has a suggestion for modifying the Dectalk EN<br>
>>> file<br>>>> association in Windows 7. I need help!<br>>>> Blake<br>>>><br>>>> _______________________________________________<br>>>> DECtalk mailing list<br>
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