[DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
Corine Bickley
corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu
Tue Feb 28 11:27:08 EST 2006
What is the unlock mechanism?
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[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Horspool
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
Hi,
No, unfortunately not. The current version sold by GW Micro is version
4.6.1, which doesn't sound too good. I have an old 4.4 ACCESS32 with no
unlock mechanism here, so if someone wants it I could send that along.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at doorpi.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
Can 4.3 access 32 still be bought to be used with jaws and the like?
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From: "Matthew Horspool" <drjaws at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
> Hi,
>
> It's up on the DECtalk archive, and a direct URL is
> http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/dectalk4.3.zip
>
> Note that that's a Sean Randall distribution and so it might not have
> exactly the same files as the DEC distribution all that time ago.
>
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> Matthew F. Horspool
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Corine Bickley" <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu>
> To: "'DECtalk Discussions'" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>
>
> Is the 4.3 version available to anyone interested? How could I get a
> copy? I
> work in research and teaching, and often have things I'd like to try
> out
> (I
> need wav files generated) by having subjects listen and evaluate.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jayson Smith
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 4:00 AM
> To: DECtalk Discussions
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>
> Hi,
> As I understand it, the demo programs are produced so that potential
> clients
> can evaluate DECtalk to see if it meets their needs, from a quality of
> speech etc. prospective. I assume that a full version would maybe be
> a
> Speak window but also contain libraries and other files so that
> DECtalk
> could be interfaced directly with other programs. The demo, at least
> version 4.3, will read a file up to about 60K in size. Also, version
> 4.3
> lets you convert the text into a wav file which is very nice! Version
> 4.6.1
> or is it 4.61 won't let you do that, and I happen to have a copy of
> the
> 4.6.4 demo and it also won't convert to wav.
> Jayson.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Dectalk at aol.com>
> To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>
>
>>
>> Thanks so much! My colleague Corine is now on this list and so I
>> thought
> it
>> was a good question to ask. I just have my communication device,
>> plus
> I've
>> never heard or seen a Dectalk Express, so that was a treat for me.
>>
>> Say, my friend Dave reminded me that the Dectalk on my CD is just a
>> demo.
>> What is a full software version like? All I ever get for my work is
>> the
> demo
>> speak windows. To me, they are like a full version because they
>> never
> expire
>> and they read any size file. So I forget that they are demos. So
>> what
> does
>> a full version do that the demo won't?
>>
>> I probably could get a full version but I really have no need for
>> one.
> I'm
>> just curious as to what it is and why you would need it when the
>> demo
> does it
>> all?
>>
>>
>> SNOOPI
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 2/26/2006 11:23:32 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>> ratguy at bellsouth.net writes:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I've reached the following conclusions. I experimented with DECtalk
>> 4.3
>> demo, creating a wav file. I used your four questions and invented
> twelve
>> more. Questions starting with How, Where, Why, what and when had a
> downward
>> inflection, like a sentence. Others had an upward inflection like a
>> question. My DECtalk Express using version 4.2CD of the firmware
>> handles
>> these questions in the same way. To hear DECtalk 4.3 asking these
>> questions, get the following file.
>> http://www.bluegrasspals.com/questions.wav
>> Here are the questions. Note that in the fourteenth question there
>> is a
>> comma, which makes it still sound like a question. The fifteenth
> question
>> is just the second part of the fourteenth question but is still
>> spoken
> like
>> a sentence.
>> Have you eaten yet?
>> How many of your brothers still live at home?
>> How many years of school did it take to become a nurse?
>> Where can I get my suit cleaned?
>> How do you want your hair cut?
>> Would you like to keep asking me questions?
>> Should I go to the doctor?
>> How much wood should I bring home?
>> Isn't she beautiful?
>> Where is Dennis sitting?
>> Why does this computer keep crashing?
>> When will I get to see that movie?
>> Who's on First?
>> If I go to sleep tonight, when will I wake up?
>> When will I wake up?
>> What is the square root of two?
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <Dectalk at aol.com>
>> To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:12 AM
>> Subject: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>>
>>
>> >
>> > 1. Have you eaten yet?
>> > 2. How many of your brothers still live at home?
>> > 3. How many years of school did it take to become a nurse?
>> > 4. Where can I get my suit cleaned?
>> > Part of my work promted me to ask you all a Dectalk question. My
>> Colleague
>> > wanted to know how my Dectalk handled the above questions. For
>> > the
> most
>> part
>> > the inflections went up in the middle of these questions rather
>> > than
> the
>> > end. I have two questions for the group.
>> >
>> > 1. How does Dectalk Express handle these questions?
>> >
>> > 2. In the manual it says something about the "^" changing how
>> > things
> are
>> > emphosized. I think it's the ^ anyway. How do you use it and
>> > would
> it
>> change
>> > how questions come out?
>> >
>> > I think there are other symbos that change how things are said,
>> > Does
>> anyone
>> > know what they are? I used this stuff twice in my life but I
>> > forget
> what
>> > they are. I just remember not being impressed enough to use
>> > them.
> But
>> now I'm
>> > trying to remember what they were and what they did.
>> >
>> >
>> > SNOOPI
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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