[DECtalk] Multiple Languages and DECtalk

[Arnaud de Bonald]

I own ha venerable DTC-01 dectalk synth from 1982 or 83.

it says, Dectalk version 2.0 is ready 

But I have seen other similar dectalk on ebay with even older versions of the software inside.

It works pretty well for its age. I would say it's even better built by far than the dec express, but unfortunatly, for a dayly use with a DOS screen reader, it's absolutly awful to use because it's quite slow to respond and the stop command do not work!

but it's an interesting piece of hardware.
I bought it on Ebay from a guy that works from the University of Dundee.
I was glad to find some work they hmade with it on the dectalk on the dectalk archive site.

	




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On 12/03/2006 at 00:12 Tony Baechler wrote:

>I have the Express 4.2CD drivers here and there is no such 
>program.  I think it must have been around 4.3 or 4.4.  I think I saw 
>a multilanguage demo before 4.61 somewhere but I don't know.  Also 
>it's possible they were using a custom dictionary.  I saw that the 
>4.3 demo had a special dictionary which had to be loaded when the demo is
>run.
>
>On a different note, The original DEC-Talk must be very old.  I was 
>reading the developer's manual on the archive and at the end of 
>chapter 6 it has a demo to use to show off the voices.  It was dated 
>1984.  The original would have to be older than that since it only 
>supports six voices and the demo used at least seven.
>
>At 03:50 PM 3/11/2006, you wrote:
>>I believe DEC went to multiple language support somewhere around DECtalk
>>software 4.2.  The 4.2 software for the DECtalk PC came with a new program
>>called usa.exe which was loaded onto the DECtalk PC board.  I think that
>had
>>something to do with multi-language support.  Unfortunately I don't have a
>>foreign version, or even know if there ever was such a thing, they may
>have
>>just been thinking about the future.
>>Jayson.
>
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