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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>I think I can answer this. Classic Dectalk is
like both the 4.4. Speak window and the Dectalk USB. They have a classic
sound we like, it sings, it dials, it does tones, and you can modify the
voices. That's to me is classic Dectalk.</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 5/16/2011 7:34:09 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>What do
you mean by classic? There have been many different versions<BR>of DECtalk
over the years. I am most familiar with the one that Dennis<BR>Klatt used at
MIT when Martha and I were members of the Speech Group<BR>there headed by
Prof. Ken Stevens, You may favor a different version,<BR>perhaps one that was
put out by DEC, or SmartModular, or Force, or<BR>modified by one of the
companies that licensed DECtalk for sale with a<BR>particular screen reader. I
don't have good information about all<BR>those versions, only my memory of the
one we used at MIT.<BR><BR>We (Enable) have a couple of versions of DECtalk
that we are<BR>considering for release as "SAPI DECtalk". One older one, 4.3,
has<BR>been SAPI-ized and works with jvda and JAWS, it seems, but I have
to<BR>tune up the voices to match the version of DECtalk that we used
at<BR>MIT. We also need to test 4.3 with various current operating
systems<BR>and screen readers. The original DECtalk was written for VAX
computers<BR>(sold by DEC and used at MIT). The Windows versions do not sound
the<BR>same as the VAX version, due to differences in the way C code
is<BR>implemented on different platforms.<BR><BR>I'll leave it to others to
compare the voice quality to versions you<BR>each use and
prefer.<BR>corine<BR><BR>On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Alex H.
<linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>> Hi Corine,<BR>><BR>>
Does this mean that you have found a classic version of DECTAlk to use<BR>>
for the sapi?<BR>><BR>> Alex<BR>><BR>> On 5/15/11, Corine Bickley
<corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu> wrote:<BR>>> Snoopi will be in
charge of creating user dictionaries for Enable<BR>>> products, such as
SAPI DECtalk. We're not ready yet to announce the<BR>>> release of SAPI
DECtalk, but hope to be soon.<BR>>><BR>>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at
6:04 PM, Jayson Smith <ratguy@insightbb.com> wrote:<BR>>>>
Hi,<BR>>>><BR>>>> Does anyone know how to
create/generate/compile user dictionaries for the<BR>>>> Speak
windows? I know back in the days of the DECtalk PC, it shipped
with<BR>>>> software to take a properly-formatted text file and
compile it into a<BR>>>> binary<BR>>>> dictionary file. I
still have one of those files, and it doesn't work as a<BR>>>> user
dictionary in Speak43. Are there tools out there to generate
user<BR>>>> dictionaries, or are they pretty much just internal tools
which should<BR>>>> have<BR>>>> been distributed but
weren't? Snoopi, Ed, Corine, can anyone help here?<BR>>>>
Thanks.<BR>>>><BR>>>>
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