two things, first say.exe supports a batch file, allowing you to input a whole bunch of text files and store them into wave files. That is also public domain it just is a DOS program that can be run by itself or by batch file. source code is also available for anyone who wishes to write their own without starting from scratch. If anyone wants a copy of the source code let me know and I'll try and get <div>
the source code to you. SnoopI, if you are presently using speak I think you might like say much better large amounts of stuff you </div><div>are doing.<br><div> Originally, every synthesizer had their own application interface, so to support a different synthesizer you needed to have code for each one in the screen reader. The purpose of SAPI was so that every person could write to a single standard and support any synthesizer that also supported SAPI. This is the blessing and the curse! <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Carlos Fernandez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cf530a@gmail.com">cf530a@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<u></u>
<div style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<div><font face="Times New Roman">This utility might help:</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11231100/FileAssociate.exe" target="_blank">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11231100/FileAssociate.exe</a></font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<div><font face="Times New Roman"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">Carlos</font></div></font></span><div><div class="h5">
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#000000 2px solid;PADDING-LEFT:5px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-RIGHT:0px">
<div style="FONT:10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial;BACKGROUND:#e4e4e4"><b>From:</b>
<a title="Dectalk@aol.com" href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" target="_blank">Dectalk@aol.com</a>
</div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a> </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:00
PM</div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DECtalk] how to do gender
change in Dectalk?</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Arial">
<div>Alright, let me change the subject and question.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I'm giving out the 4.40 Speak Window because it's public domain. I
wish I had a batch file that would associate the en files with the speak
Window. Can anyone help me?</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>SNOOPI BOTTEN </div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<div>In a message dated 1/31/2012 6:48:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, <a href="mailto:mcmahan.jake@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcmahan.jake@gmail.com</a> 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">
<div><font face="Arial">There is no real way to pass any commands to
sapi5 unless it's xml and the program supporting the engine has to be
xml. I've worked with synths for a long time and I can see why this
is.</font></div>
<div style="FONT:10pt Tahoma">
<div><br></div>
<div style="BACKGROUND:#f5f5f5">
<div><b>From:</b> <a title="mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com" href="mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com" target="_blank">ebruckert Bruckert</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:38 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">DECtalk Discussions</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DECtalk] how to do gender change in
Dectalk?</div></div></div>
<div><br></div> you know this is the type
of thing exactly what I was talking about that Dennis would never do, you
basically called me a liar.
<div>In all honesty there is nobody in the world that knows DECtalk better
than I do Kasai was with it before day one. There is no magic code and never
has been, with regard to singing, my guess is he doesn't know the sequence
required necessarily to do it. And I have no idea what version he licensed
from them at this point, but have the engineer call me and will get it
singing.</div>
<div> read the SAPI spec in order to comply and be
certified with Microsoft you have to comply. And part of that specification
is what commands to the synthesizer can be and which ones have to be, but no
other commands are allowed.</div>
<div> and I have no relationship with enable,
other than as a free consult, because I do care I wanted it for myself as
well as for others because I need a screen reader. I generate this text with
the speech recognition system so there may be some interesting
mistakes.</div>
<div> The only way I know of to be able to send
the phonemic commands desired is to release a DLL which has to be talk to
was a program that supports the adapting interface, which isn't so awful
because there are two programs that are license free and free for anyone to
use that can talk to the deputy speak.exe and say.exe {four batch
programs).</div>
<div> if anyone knows how to pass DECtalk specific
commands through a SAPI interface I'm all ears.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:52 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a title="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" target="_blank">Dectalk@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><u></u>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:14pt"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Arial">
<div>You know, after thinking about it, Ed is wrong, and I want to say why
because if I don't, I'm the one that looks like the one who's wrong.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Lets talk about Dectalk Reader 1 and how people should know by the
name that it can't sing. I'm gonna bring up Ancilla, which was a
voice mail program that ran in Windows 3.1. And if you think that's
too old for anyone to remember, un, I'm writing about it, so I
remember. It came with a speech engine and it happened to be
Dectalk. And the surprise feature was, it could sing.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Does any Dectalk product mention singing? Not that I know of,
not until you install it. So why on God's green Earth should anyone
know by the name alone that Dectalk Reader 1 won't sing? As long as
it's Dectalk, I think anyone would rightfully assume that it will
sing. So I think the name misleads people.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Now, why are you blaming Microsoft when I know for a fact that they
are not to blame for why it won't sing. And how do I know
this? There is a device company called Talking Box and they use
Dectalk. Their Dectalk won't sing and I had to know why just because
I wanted to know. I got to talk to an engineer at Talking Box and
was totally fascinated with what he told me. There is a command that
they can encode that restricts the singing. And being that I know
this, I know that Talking Box could either tell you the code, or tell you
who to contact to get the code. I would help track it but um, I was
fired for speaking the truth.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>And shall we bring up Stacy, the only person that you know that
has the codes that you need. The one person that had the brains
enough to walk away because all you guys do is make up stories.
Actually I have no idea why she walked away, but from everything I know, I
don't blame her and she actually has my respect.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>So cut the crap. If I had the go ahead I could track down the
needed codes because I know where to start looking. And actually I
think you do to but you're to worried about your pension from Fonix.
I know about the contract, I know about a lot of stuff, a lot of red tape
that keeps this SAPI from being what it could be. That's why it's
garbage, because Corine Bickley signed an insane contract with Fonix and
never did get what she paid for. So you are all stuck with what you
have to work with because no one has any guts.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>And no, I never met Dennis Klatt, I never said I did. But I
know him through his work which was a head of it's time. I'm not the
only one that sings with Dectalk. If you search on youtube, you will
find a number of people who sang the National Anthem among other
things., Dennis Klatt made that happen. Dennis had the desire
to give the possibility of singing never knowing how far it could
go. Still, he put out that possibility. And yeah, I'm the most
known synthetic singer, but I'm not the only synthetic singer. And
it shouldn't have to end over a source code. Dennis wanted to give
everyone the option to sing, so he made it part of Dectalk. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>So by releasing a version that can't sing, you are giving up on every
person that wants to sing. Is that really what Dennis Klatt would
do? A guy that made his own Daughter smile by having Dectalk sing to
her on her birthday? You can actually live with not having this
sing?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>That's why I say and repeat, Dennis would roll over in his
grave. This is not what Dennis would do. His work speaks for
him.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>SNOOPI BOTTEN </div>
<div>
<div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<div>In a message dated 1/30/2012 1:53:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, <a title="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net" href="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net" target="_blank">beroberts@hughes.net</a> 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">
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="4">I agree that the product is
releaseable and a dictionary should be included. The samples definitely
sound better now. I can understand 85-90 percent of the
words.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="4">Blake</font></span></div><br>
<div dir="ltr" lang="en-us" align="left">
<hr>
<font face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> <a title="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a> [mailto:<a title="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b><a title="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" target="_blank">Dectalk@aol.com</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 30,
2012 1:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a title="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re:
[DECtalk] how to do gender change in Dectalk?<br></font><br></div>
<div></div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Arial">
<div>Still, there should be a dictionary included to change how words
are pronounced.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>SNOOPI BOTTEN </div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<div>In a message dated 1/30/2012 1:31:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, <a title="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com" href="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmisch2002@gmail.com</a> 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">i heard these samples on klango a month ago and they
sounded better than that DECtalk sample that was out early last
year.
<div><font size="4"></font><font size="4"></font><br>
<div>
<div>On Jan 30, 2012, at 12:28 PM, <a title="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" target="_blank">Dectalk@aol.com</a>
wrote:</div><br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:14pt"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Arial">
<div>After posting the link I tried it myself. I think these
files were updated because I'm now understanding them at 100
percent. However, "New" still sounds like "Moo", but this is
releasable. I actually like it now. Wow! I never
thought you guys would pull it off! I hope you fix "New",
and the "H" in "Hurricane" is too long, but this is damn good
now.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>SNOOPI BOTTEN </div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<div>In a message dated 1/30/2012 12:15:09 P.M. Eastern Standard
Time, <a title="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" target="_blank">Dectalk@aol.com</a> 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"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Arial">
<div>Let me share the link to the unreleased demos that I'm
talking about. And actually the word "New" sounds like
"Moo".</div>
<div> </div>
<div>To hear samples of all the voices, just change the name at
the end of the link.</div>
<div><a title="http://davesvideoservicesco.startlogic.com/dennis/" href="http://davesvideoservicesco.startlogic.com/dennis/" target="_blank">http://davesvideoservicesco.startlogic.com/dennis/</a></div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>SNOOPI BOTTEN </div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<div>In a message dated 1/30/2012 11:49:56 A.M. Eastern Standard
Time, <a title="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com" href="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmisch2002@gmail.com</a> 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">that ductal demo sounds like 4.61 or something close
to it.
<div><br>
<div>
<div>On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:08 AM, <a title="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" target="_blank">Dectalk@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:14pt"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Arial">
<div>Fine, release it, whatever. The latest MP3
recordings of Dectalk Reader 1 have pops in most of the
voices, and the weather report in the demo is only like 80
percent understandable. So fine, I'll say it's the
best thing I ever heard in my life if that's what you
want. It's a lie, but gm starting to feel like the truth
doesn't exist any more.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>"Four score and 7 years ago our Father's brought forth a
new nation", or whatever that line is. The word "New" is
annoyingly pronounced. I have no clue what is wrong with
it, it sounds like [nuwuwuw], rather than
[nuw]. I'm not sure, it's just annoying.
My point is, if you are not offering an online demo,
or anything that people can't try, and if those two
demos are the only thing that people hear, and if it
won't even have a dictionary that people can edit how it says
words, then, then, then. Oh good grief. </div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>SNOOPI BOTTEN </div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<div>In a message dated 1/30/2012 10:31:01 A.M. Eastern
Standard Time, <a title="mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com" href="mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com" target="_blank">edbruckert@gmail.com</a> 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"> additional
information, I forgot to mention that sometime in the late
80s when Dennis added a female data set to DECtalk the sex
option change from a scaling function to simply selecting a
male or female phonetic base, but in no way can I remember
when that occurred.
<div> As a general comment I
alone did the four point X versions of DECtalk as Dennis was
born at that point, so I know them intimately, but even
years ago people would prefer different versions and trying
to make one sound exactly like the other was exceedingly
difficult and a lot of it occurred because of changes in the
overall coding that were done not because we wanted to but
because we had to meet evolving programming standards to
keep it running on various tools because if we didn't sell
DECtalk we simply went home and unfortunately economics
force the focus away from the screen reader environment.
I did not like this change but DECtalk more than once
was in survival mode, I am using the latest version and to
say it's on understandable is an exaggeration,</div>
<div>preferring a different version is very understandable.
I have no problems with people saying what I want but
understand this is anything but easy with limited funds, I
donate my time but other people cannot and the fact that I'm
going blind and I am not a Windows or SAPI programmer there
are limits to what can be done. But I think junk is an
unfair exaggeration.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Jake
McMahan <span dir="ltr"><<a title="mailto:mcmahan.jake@gmail.com" href="mailto:mcmahan.jake@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcmahan.jake@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"><u></u>
<div style="PADDING-LEFT:10px;PADDING-RIGHT:10px;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:14pt;PADDING-TOP:15px" name="Compose message area">
<div>
<div> I have to say, I love
the sound of dectalk reader one. I really want this
version badly. I don't care if it will sing, and I
don't care about anything else. I love it the way it
is. To me, it's not garbage, it's a version of
dectalk that I personally like. I want this version,
again.</div></div>
<div style="FONT:10pt Tahoma">
<div><br></div>
<div style="BACKGROUND:#f5f5f5">
<div><b>From:</b> <a title="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" target="_blank">Dectalk@aol.com</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 29, 2012 9:09 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a> </div>
<div>
<div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DECtalk] how to do gender change
in Dectalk?</div></div></div></div></div>
<div>
<div>
<div><br></div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Arial">
<div>Um, Ed, excuse me but Blake and I both heard the
latest MP3 samples of Dectalk Reader 1. The speech
is not understandable.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>SNOOPI BOTTEN </div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<div>In a message dated 1/29/2012 8:59:14 P.M. Eastern
Standard Time, <a title="mailto:musicalman1@comcast.net" href="mailto:musicalman1@comcast.net" target="_blank">musicalman1@comcast.net</a> 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">
<div><font face="Arial">Well, I've stated this opinion
time and time again, and every time I do, people seem to
think I'm nuts or that I'm too
conservative.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">First off, people are nnot stupid.
If they call it Dectalk Reader, then who in their right
mind will think snoopi's instructions on making it sing,
will work with a reader of all things?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">And, the Dectalk that Enable has,
isn't unusable. there are some on this list that like it
for what it is. I myself do not, but that's my opinion.
One man's garbage is another man's
treasure...</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">This isn't the first time someone
released a Dectalk that wasn't a thing like what we all
know. Force did it, Fonix did it. But everyone still
stuckw ith Dectalk 4.3 and 4.4. So I don't see why
Enable is going to just ruin everything. If people don't
like it, they will simply not use it just like they did
with everything else. I do not agree with Enable's
motives, but I will never tell them their product is
garbage. Let's say I tell someone on this list their
production is garbage. they worked for hours on it. They
will most likely be glad to have received the high
complement? Even if it's the worst piece of garbage you
ever heard. It's simply not anything close to
constructive to say it that way. So now Enable just
releases what they have because some people use it and
they've fired those who told them off. It's sad but
true. They have their faults, we have ours. If we don't
like them, that's how it is. But I was seriously hoping
the Enable business was over with. They'd either fix it
or they wouldn't. *sigh*</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">I continue to hope that Dennis
will like what eventually becomes of Dectalk. Maybe
enable will do something for the better, or someone else
will. But we have no hopeful dectalk future, which is
sad. I believe all of us, that being Enable and those of
us who were very harsh on them, had a part in that. I am
so fed up with this argument between us and Enable!
Let's just not post anything else degrading about
them. Please? we've done that enough!</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div>----- Original Message ----- </div>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#000000 2px solid;PADDING-LEFT:5px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-RIGHT:0px">
<div style="FONT:10pt arial;BACKGROUND:#e4e4e4"><b>From:</b>
<a title="mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com" href="mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com" target="_blank">ebruckert Bruckert</a> </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">DECtalk Discussions</a> </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday,
January 29, 2012 9:30 AM</div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re:
[DECtalk] how to do gender change in Dectalk?</div>
<div><font face="Arial"></font><font face="Arial"></font><font face="Arial"></font><br></div> I
want to clarify some things and some things that make
me quite upset. Making statements like Dennis would
roll over in his grave when you never even knew Dennis
I find disrespectful. Dennis was a person I always
looked up to and tried to emulate in my life. And he
would never denigrate people the way you seem inclined
to do, especially when in plain English you don't know
what the hell you're talking about!! the issue of
singing in the SAPI version has nothing to do with
DECtalk if you want to get mad at somebody get mad at
Microsoft for creating a specification that doesn't
allow for commands to be passed to a synthesizer. The
DECtalk created could sing if you get get the damn
commands to it. In plain English I'm thoroughly
disgusted with your rants.
<div> The sex command was created for the
original DECtalk because we only had one acoustic
database so Dennis did the best he could trying to
develop an algorithm to scale performance between a
male and a female which works to some extent but can't
be perfect due to the complexities involved in that
it's not linear.</div>
<div> </div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:45
AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a title="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" target="_blank">Dectalk@aol.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><u></u>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:14pt"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Arial">
<div>Thank you! I knew it was possible but I
never totally knew how. I am trying to jump
start my business called "THE FLAME OF HOPE".
As most of you know I have over 1200 songs, and
right now I'm trying to put as many of them as I can
to music. Some I flat out can't because when I
first started I made really bad errors such as not
doing the entire song. Part of it was I
started with easy sheet music which often only has
one verse. But I'm doing new songs as
well.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The reason is, people now have avatars and easy
to use animation software. So I'm marketing
the free 4.40 Speak Window which is free for the
asking, then I'm selling my instructions on how to
create voices and make them sing. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>I bring this up because I have a question for
all of you. Enable Rehab is getting ready to
release "DECTALK READER 1", and there might be an
Earthquake on that day because Dennis Klatt might
roll over in his grave. This thing as far as I
know won't sing. The voices from the latest I
have heard are still bad quality because the voices
pop in the MP3 recordings that I have heart. I
don't think it will come with a dictionary so people
can edit how words are said. And in my
opinion, this thing is still garbage! I got
fired for saying that but big deal, I'm only saying
the truth!</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Anyway, Enable Rehab won't take "Dectalk" out
of the name because they feel the name is a
marketing tool. I personally think it's fraud
because it will be so different from the Dectalk
that we all know and love that it really isn't
Dectalk. They're calling it "Reader 1" so
people will know by the title that it will only
read. (Sick)</div>
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<div>Anyway, I'm upset because thanks to both E
voice and now the internet, I think I'm as
associated with Dectalk as much as Dennis
Klatt. This upcoming release is making me sick
because I'm afraid people might buy this Dectalk
SAPI garbage and think my instructions will work
with it. So I'm very upset that they are
calling it Dectalk anything. They really need
to remove "Dectalk" from the title because I view it
as a deception of the worse kind!</div>
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<div>Here is my question. I think a petition
should be started because this is just wrong!
BUT, I don't know if the petition should be to just
drop "Dectalk" from the name, OR, to just scrap this
garbage. And, I don't want to be the one to
start the petition because I don't know how.
But if a petition does get started, it needs to go
all over the internet and get back to Enable
Rehab.</div>
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<div>I just feel that by marking this garbage under
"Dectalk", they are taking advantage of both the
blind and the disabled communities because they know
"Dectalk" will bring in sales just because of the
name. And because my name is known with
Dectalk, I feel this soon to be released garbage
will effect my image and my business.</div>
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<div>SNOOPI BOTTEN </div>
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<div>In a message dated 1/28/2012 9:49:19 P.M.
Eastern Standard Time, <a title="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net" href="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net" target="_blank">beroberts@hughes.net</a> 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">Thanks Alex. That
syntax works in both DT 4.4 and 4.3. I did a quick
test<br>with both versions. Note to Snoopi:
the female versions of Frank and Dennis<br>sound
odd. I think breathiness will need to be changed
with the br command<br>for best
results.<br>Blake<br><br>-----Original
Message-----<br>From: <a title="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a><br>[mailto:<a title="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com" href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>]
On Behalf Of Alex H.<br>Sent: Saturday, January
28, 2012 9:06 PM<br>To: DECtalk
Discussions<br>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] how to do
gender change in Dectalk?<br><br>sorry, [:nf][:dv
sx 0] should do it.<br><br>On 1/28/12, Alex H.
<<a title="mailto:linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com" href="mailto:linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com" target="_blank">linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>> [:sx 0]<br>><br>> On 1/28/12,
Blake Roberts <<a title="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net" href="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net" target="_blank">beroberts@hughes.net</a>>
wrote:<br>>> Hi all,<br>>> Snoopi
asked me to pose a question to the listserv. He
knows about <br>>> the gender change
command, sx. Does it work in DT 4.4? If so, what
is <br>>> the correct syntax?<br>>>
Snoopi wants to program the song Emotion by The
Bee Gees using a <br>>> breathy female Frank
or Dennis. I know that may sound funny, but it
<br>>> is a serious thing. If anyone knows
how to change Frank or Dennis to <br>>>
female, please share. I figure someone on here
probably does. <br>>> Alternatively, if
anyone else wants to program a female Frank or
<br>>> Dennis version of the song, Snoopi is
willing to do the mixing with <br>>> music
after fixing any phoneems that may be incorrect.
He is waiting <br>>> for his communication
device to be repaired, so Snoopi will not be
<br>>> able to program the song for about a
month.<br>>> Blake<br>>>
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