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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>And who knows what Microsoft will offer in windows11 at the end of the year. Not only that, but I think ESpeak has untapped potential as well. </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:Text_to_Speech@GMX.com">Don</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, June 26, 2021 17:45<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [DECtalk] decTalk 4.4 4.5 and 4.6 as sapi5?</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 6/26/2021 8:08 AM, Josh Kennedy wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> well in that case since it is so darn complicated, I'm just going to use it</p><p class=MsoNormal>> with NVDA and I'm just going to assume that it's abandoned and be done with</p><p class=MsoNormal>> it. I really don't think he's going to care if I use some 25 to 30 year old</p><p class=MsoNormal>> version of DECTALK, that nobody is hardly using anyway. and who knows, maybe</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I can pay some developer out there to make a SAPI5 version of the 4.41</p><p class=MsoNormal>> version of DECTALK.</p><p class=MsoNormal>As I said, you're better off picking a FOSS project that IS SUPPORTED</p><p class=MsoNormal>so that it will continue to evolve. Why throw money/effort after an</p><p class=MsoNormal>obsolete product that will never see anything more than "token efforts" to</p><p class=MsoNormal>fix existing problems?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Instead, latch onto the efforts and enthusiasm of folks who have a</p><p class=MsoNormal>"clean" development effort that has the prospect of moving forward.</p><p class=MsoNormal>This allows you to influence the direction THAT effort takes</p><p class=MsoNormal>(because, at the very least, you are an "interested user") while</p><p class=MsoNormal>it is being actively developed instead of, later, wondering why</p><p class=MsoNormal>it evolved into something that doesn't fit your needs.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I seriously considered buying a source license for DECtalk before</p><p class=MsoNormal>I started working on my own synthesizers; the cost would have</p><p class=MsoNormal>been considerably less than the effort to "roll my own" (my</p><p class=MsoNormal>time is not cheap!).</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But, I'd be left with a *closed* product that only *I* could</p><p class=MsoNormal>improve upon. I couldn't benefit from the efforts and ideas</p><p class=MsoNormal>of others because they couldn't legally SEE the source code</p><p class=MsoNormal>that I'd have licensed!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Personally, I think DECtalk's speech is considerably less natural</p><p class=MsoNormal>than many other technologies. It's biggest advantage is the smaller</p><p class=MsoNormal>size of the product. But, that really only affects people who are</p><p class=MsoNormal>"counting bytes" (like me), not folks with gigabytes of memory and</p><p class=MsoNormal>oodles of disk space!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Good luck!</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dectalk mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>