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<DIV>you are on the right track, but I want it automatic so people don't have to
do anything.</DIV>
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<DIV>SNOOPI BOTTEN </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 1/31/2012 7:35:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
cf530a@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman">This utility might help:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><A
title=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11231100/FileAssociate.exe
href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11231100/FileAssociate.exe">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11231100/FileAssociate.exe</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman">Carlos</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mailto:Dectalk@aol.com
href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com">Dectalk@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">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
title=mailto:mcmahan.jake@gmail.com
href="mailto:mcmahan.jake@gmail.com">mcmahan.jake@gmail.com</A>
writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 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 style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com
href="mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com">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">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">Dectalk@aol.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<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 class=h5>
<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>
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<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>
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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
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class=gmail_quote><U></U>
<DIV
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<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>
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<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>SNOOPI BOTTEN </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<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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