[DECtalk] making a better way to put in notes
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Fri Feb 16 17:44:06 EST 2007
That's the $64000.00 question. I have a Dectalk 4.0 Speak Window that I
down loaded from the internet years ago. To my ears, it sounds as close to the
Dennis Klatt hardware version as you can get. When Fonix bought Dectalk,
they never god the files that date back as far as mine does. Somehow, the
earliest software version that Fonix has was already changed, but no one knows by
who or why. So, at best you end up with a less than desirable quality
version of Dectalk.
Dennis use to give out the source code for Dectalk, it was never meant to be
private. I've talked with Corine about this a few times. From what I
understand, she believes that someone knows how or has a decompiled version of the
4.40 Dectalk Speak Window. If we ever track it down, we want to create and
release a version of that quality.
So every so often I go fishing in hopes of finding someone who can decompile
it. I have 2 friends that could crack it, but they won't out of fear of
being in big trouble. They both fail to understand that they would be helping
in a big way.
So I think our only hope is finding a person that both knew Dennis and has
those files. So every so often I ask to see if I might get lucky on behalf of
Fonix.
SNOOPI BOTTEN
In a message dated 2/16/2007 5:18:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
guiaccess at covad.net writes:
Why would Fonix want to do this? Have they not the source code for DECtalk
since they own it?
GUI Access
Would that work on the Dectalk 4.0 speak window? Fonix, Gallaudet, and
myself are forever trying to decompile it. Those codes are no where to be found
and we want to decompile the Speak Window to access the dell files.
SNOOPI BOTTEN
In a message dated 2/16/2007 3:55:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
guiaccess at covad.net writes:
I spent many hours long ago reverse engineering the format of the DECtalk
dictionary. Surprisingly, the format is quite simple. I wrote some code to
dump the contents of a DECtalk dictionary; I should dig it up.
GUI Access
here's an url for making pronunciation dictionaries. not sure if this is
what you are talking about. When I tried to look at the dectalk.dic in
notepad. It looked like garbage. (smiles)
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From: _Dectalk at aol.com_ (mailto:Dectalk at aol.com)
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Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] making a better way to put in notes
AActually if someone ever figures out how to access the Dectalk Dictionary,
you can. Take like the C notes. You could assign "LC" to "1" then "LCS" to
"2", and "MC" to "13", then "MCS" to "14" and so on. I want to do this
myself but I can't access to dictionary. I'm glad I never did it though or my so
ngs wouldn't work on all Dectalk versions.
SNOOPI BOTTEN
In a message dated 2/16/2007 9:48:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
taz0801 at charter.net writes:
what if we had a better way to put in notes? instead of remembering numbers
you could 'write the following. [ao<2bf,qn>ll<3bf,qn>] tell me what you
guys think.
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