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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>That’s strange. fonixTalk says copyright 2013. And there is no phone number or address on their website. The contact just gives an email address.</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 15:15<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 they still manufacture DECTalk, then they will hold the copyright on </p><p class=MsoNormal>any and all previous versions as well as those that are maintained. </p><p class=MsoNormal>Hence the reason Keynote is extremely rare and soon probably won't even </p><p class=MsoNormal>exist at all in the end-user market.</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 08:06 pm, Josh Kennedy wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Yes it is, but they do not seem very responsive at all to the end-user. </p><p class=MsoNormal>> And they only seem to support one version of decTalk.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Version 4.6.4 and its only an sdk. So does this mean that earlier </p><p class=MsoNormal>> versions are abanadonware and we can do what we wish with them?</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>> *From: *mattias jonsson <mailto:mj@mjw.se></p><p class=MsoNormal>> *Sent: *Saturday, July 13, 2019 14:59</p><p class=MsoNormal>> *To: *DECtalk <mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>> *Subject: *Re: [DECtalk] legality of decTalk?</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> josh, yes are the company not called fonix talk?</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Den 13 juli 2019 8:57:24 em skrev Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982@gmail.com>:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Just curious, since there are legal and illegal versions of</p><p class=MsoNormal>> eloquence out there i.e. CodeFactory sells sapi5 and other eloquence</p><p class=MsoNormal>> for use with NVDA and sapi5… well is it the same with decTalk? Is</p><p class=MsoNormal>> decTalk owned by a company and does that company still charge money</p><p class=MsoNormal>> for it? Or are some software versions of decTalk charged for, and</p><p class=MsoNormal>> others, abandonware? Is that why there is a lot of decTalk stuff</p><p class=MsoNormal>> floating around, because the newest stuff is owned by a company</p><p class=MsoNormal>> while the older decTalk stuff like 4.6 and below are abandonware and</p><p class=MsoNormal>> nobody cares what you do with them anymore? I remember at one time,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> decTalk was the most expensive synthesizer box you could get for</p><p class=MsoNormal>> your computer 30 or 35 years ago, and it was the most popular and</p><p class=MsoNormal>> people who had speaking disabilities used decTalk to sing and to use</p><p class=MsoNormal>> it as a very expressive voice if they wished. I bet keynote gold is</p><p class=MsoNormal>> just some sort of modified decTalk. I wonder if decTalk is the root</p><p class=MsoNormal>> of all the later klatt-based synthesizers, eloquence, truVoice,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> keynote gold, infovox230, etcetera? It seems like decTalk still has</p><p class=MsoNormal>> 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>