<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I'll post some samples as soon as I'm able to test all the voices. </div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Brandon Misch <bmisch2002@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> DECtalk Discussions <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, May 17, 2011 8:03:52 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows<br></font><br>
i know fs's version of access 32 was version 4.41 of dectalk <br><br>On May 16, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:<br><br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> Is there any chance we could hear a sample of the 4.3 SAPI as it currently <br>> stands? The reason is, if it's the same as the 4.3 Speak window which has <br>> been distributed all over the net for years, I'm sure that same sounding <br>> DECtalk turned into a SAPI would be wonderful news to the entire <br>> DECtalk-loving community. Corine, do you have any audio samples of the <br>> DECtalk sound you remember using? It'd be interesting to hear those and <br>> compare it to the 4.3 we all know and love.<br>> <br>> As far as what we mean by "Classic," I personally would say anything from <br>> 4.0 through 4.4 falls into that category. I'm not sure what version of <br>> DECtalk the Access32 software product used, but by then there were some <br>> changes I didn't like. Of
course, others on this list may differ in what <br>> they would consider "classic DECtalk."<br>> Jayson<br>> <br>> ----- Original Message ----- <br>> From: "Corine Bickley" <<a ymailto="mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu" href="mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu">corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu</a>><br>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <<a ymailto="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a>><br>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 7:33 AM<br>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows<br>> <br>> <br>>> 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. <<a ymailto="mailto:linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com" href="mailto:linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com">linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com</a>> <br>>> 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 <<a ymailto="mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu" href="mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu">corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu</a>> 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 <<a ymailto="mailto:ratguy@insightbb.com" href="mailto:ratguy@insightbb.com">ratguy@insightbb.com</a>> <br>>>>> wrote:<br>>>>>> Hi,<br>>>>>> <br>>>>>> Does anyone know how to create/generate/compile user dictionaries for <br>>>>>> the<br>>>>>> Speak windows? I know back in the days of the DECtalk PC, it shipped <br>>>>>> 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 <br>>>>>> 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>>>>>> _______________________________________________<br>>>>>> DECtalk mailing list<br>>>>>> <a ymailto="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><span>>>>>> <a target="_blank" href="http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk">http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a></span><br>>>>>> <br>>>>> _______________________________________________<br>>>>> DECtalk mailing list<br>>>>> <a ymailto="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br>>>>> <a
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