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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’m not sure, but I think that yes decTalk was probably used in the modern language masters. Before that, they used keynote gold in the franklin language masters, the old ones with word train and other games with sound effects in them.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:damien@daygar.plus.com">Damien Garwood</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, July 13, 2019 15:11<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [DECtalk] legality of decTalk?</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Josh,</p><p class=MsoNormal>If there are any derivatives going on at all, I think Keynote is more </p><p class=MsoNormal>likely to be a derivative of Eloquence than of DECTalk.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I'm not sure what the chronology of Klatt-based synths are, but while </p><p class=MsoNormal>Eloquence certainly bases its synthesis off the Klatt model, I think we </p><p class=MsoNormal>can safely say that its vocal qualities have slightly different nuances </p><p class=MsoNormal>and influences than those of DECTalk.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Having said that, the manufacturer of a speech synth will likely end up </p><p class=MsoNormal>making something that easily reminds us of something else without it </p><p class=MsoNormal>being intentionally derived. A classic example of this is ESpeak, which </p><p class=MsoNormal>reminds me of a slightly distorted and more nasal version of the Dolphin </p><p class=MsoNormal>Apollo II synth.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I can't help wondering though, wasn't DECTalk the synth used for the </p><p class=MsoNormal>modern Franklin Language Masters? Sounded almost like Betty.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Damien.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 13/07/2019 07:57 pm, Josh Kennedy wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Just curious, since there are legal and illegal versions of eloquence </p><p class=MsoNormal>> out there i.e. CodeFactory sells sapi5 and other eloquence for use with </p><p class=MsoNormal>> NVDA and sapi5… well is it the same with decTalk? Is decTalk owned by a </p><p class=MsoNormal>> company and does that company still charge money for it? Or are some </p><p class=MsoNormal>> software versions of decTalk charged for, and others, abandonware? Is </p><p class=MsoNormal>> that why there is a lot of decTalk stuff floating around, because the </p><p class=MsoNormal>> newest stuff is owned by a company while the older decTalk stuff like </p><p class=MsoNormal>> 4.6 and below are abandonware and nobody cares what you do with them </p><p class=MsoNormal>> anymore? I remember at one time, decTalk was the most expensive </p><p class=MsoNormal>> synthesizer box you could get for your computer 30 or 35 years ago, and </p><p class=MsoNormal>> it was the most popular and people who had speaking disabilities used </p><p class=MsoNormal>> decTalk to sing and to use it as a very expressive voice if they wished. </p><p class=MsoNormal>> I bet keynote gold is just some sort of modified decTalk. I wonder if </p><p class=MsoNormal>> decTalk is the root of all the later klatt-based synthesizers, </p><p class=MsoNormal>> eloquence, truVoice, keynote gold, infovox230, etcetera? It seems like </p><p class=MsoNormal>> decTalk still has the most flexibility and can do the most stuff.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Josh</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> _______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Dectalk mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>> http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dectalk mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>