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Does Fonix still own the rights to DECtalk technology? Or is it some
other company?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/18/15 09:02 PM, Blake Roberts via
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Just to clarify
some things: The Flame of Hope
is owned by a former member of this list, Snoopi Botten.
While his site does offer
valuable Dectalk resources including songs, there is no
affiliation with bluegrasspals.
On one section of the site, he tells people how to join
this list because there
is such a wide breadth/depth of Dectalk knowledge on
here. The only reason Snoopi
left this list some months ago is because emails kept
bouncing. This resulted in
him having to be unsubscribed even though he did not
want to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The Dectalk SAPI
referred to is one which Snoopi
and I obtained from someone when we were working on
Enable Rehab's Dectalk project
some years ago. I participated voluntarily. Although the
SAPI calls itself 5.0,
it really uses Dectalk version 4.63. I originally
provided the SAPI to this list
in 2011 as something for members to play with while
Enable Rehab was developing
their own Dectalk product.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Enable's final
product ultimately used a completely
different version of Dectalk altogether. By that time
Snoopi and I were no longer
associated with the company. We eventually chose to
create our own zip file with
the SAPI we had received and Dectalk utilities acquired
by Enable. The reason for
our own zip file I don't need to go into at present.
This was done so that the public
can have a free SAPI version of Dectalk and utilities to
use. The file called "instructions
for Dectalk Reader 1" was primarily written by myself to
help people understand
what everything included did or didn't do. Again, the
instruction file was created
as a public service.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">As for the SAPI
limitations, I've known for
years that it can only sing via an application called
TTS App and only then to a
limited extent. As for the other limitations you
mention, I did not know about them.
The Dectalk SAPI being referenced was developed by
Fonix. It was provided to myself
and Snoopi years ago by someone on condition of
anonymousness. So, even if Fonix
had not gone bankrupt a year or so ago, contacting them
about fixing the Dectalk
4.63 SAPI would serve no purpose. Snoopi and I have
always thought of the 4.63 SAPI
as a beta because of the limited singing ability.
Apparently Beta is still an apt
term. Since the Dectalk speak windows can sing and
accept commands like define voice,
I suggest using one of those such as 4.40 or 4.3.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">My apologies for
such a long email. It is lengthy
because in my mind sufficient explanation is warranted.
This self-created term paper
is now complete.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font
size="2" face="Tahoma"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Dectalk
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>] <b><span
style="font-weight:bold">On
Behalf Of </span></b>Johnathan Velick via Dectalk<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
Saturday, July 18, 2015 7:56
PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <st1:personname
w:st="on">DECtalk</st1:personname><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b>
Johnathan Velick<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b>
Re: [<st1:personname w:st="on">DECtalk</st1:personname>]
DECTalk 5 (Sapi) Thank you, and please help</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New
Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Really? I had assumed Bluegrasspals was
affiliated with Flameofhope. At
any rate, the zip directory is <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://theflameofhope.co/dectalkreader1/">here.</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt">It does not use the actual DECTalk software
but through the folder
"sapi" there is a .msi download so that the Text To
Speech
Application may work with the DECTalk Voices
installed, and afaik it uses a
dictionary file to work with phonemes, as the
phonetic code as I mentioned
before works but not design voice or other voice
commands (as in the ones used
to change between the voice presets Paul, Betty,
Harry, Rita, etc).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt">I'm assuming the entire source code is
inside these files but I don't
know how to access them to make them work with the
TTSA software.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt">On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Blake
Roberts via Dectalk <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com"
target="_blank">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black">Johnathan, </span></font><font
size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I
am also wondering where
you obtained Dectalk 5.0. As far as I know it
isn't on the Internet. Since this
list does not have its own web site for
downloading files, I'm not sure where
you obtained it.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy">Blake</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><font
size="2" face="Tahoma"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2"
face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Dectalk [mailto:<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com"
target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a></a>]
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Mohamed via Dectalk<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
Saturday, July 18, 2015 6:34
PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
<st1:personname w:st="on">DECtalk</st1:personname><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b>
Mohamed<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b>
Re: [<st1:personname w:st="on">DECtalk</st1:personname>]
DECTalk 5 (Sapi) Thank you, and please help</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font
size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black">Hmm? Where is that located? I'd
be interested in trying it.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font
size="3" color="black" face="Times New
Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black">On 07/18/15 05:26 PM,
Johnathan Velick via Dectalk wrote:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font
size="3" color="black" face="Times New
Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black">Hi, I've been a fan of
DECTalk ever since I've heard of it
and it
was only today that I found version
5 from you guys, which I prefer over
the
4.40 demo I had been using before.
The standard text editor options
really help
too.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font
size="3" color="black" face="Times New
Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black">But I've noticed that
while the phonemes and singing work,
the
tones, dials, design voice and other
advanced options don't work within the
TTS
app like they did in the 4.40 program.
This is bothersome because I've dug
through the files and I found a guide
that lists these features and how to
access them in the program, but to no
avail. May I have installed the
package
wrong? The app didn't initially come
with the DECTalk voices or dictionary
files but they were downloadable
within a folder in the zip from your
website.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font
size="3" color="black" face="Times New
Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black">It would also help if I
could resize the application window and
use the enter key (without ctrl) to
automatically read the text field. And
the
DECTalk US voices are at the bottom of
the drop-down and I have to select it
each time because that's how it runs by
default, which is also irritating.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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