[DECtalk] dectalk for XP

Jahmal Lovato jahmallovato1 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 20:21:44 EST 2009


How do you make, or not make, load an other text file?
I've never had the hang of loading different songs, accept the demo file in 4.3.
And, how do you record a wav file in the application?
Thank you,
Jahmal
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:12:34 -0500, Jayson Smith wrote:


>Unzip the file into a new folder, the name doesn't matter. Run the 
>speak43.exe application in that folder, and it will open up a file called 
>demo.txt. That is a hardwired filename in that application and cannot be 
>changed.
>One reason a lot of folks use 4.3 is that, as far as I know, it's the only 
>version out there which allows saving of its synthesized speech output 
>directly as .wav files without using something like Total Recorder.
>Jayson
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Jahmal Lovato" <jahmallovato1 at gmail.com>
>To: <beroberts at hughes.net>; "DECtalk Discussions" 
><dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>; "'DECtalk Discussions'" 
><dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk for XP
>
>
>Hi, will there be dectalk for vista and 7?
>If not, I am not upgrading.
>I just downloaded the dectalk 4.3.
>Where do you recommend extracting it, and how do you run the program?
>Is there a dot exe file, or do I go to run and type something?
>It was kind of different with windows me
>On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:38:45 -0500, Blake Roberts wrote:
>
>
>>Alex,
>>Having used both Dectalk 4.3 and 4.4, I think the voice quality for both
>>versions is identical. Dectalk started sounding awful when Dectalk 4.6 
>>first
>>came out (version 4.61). Although Phonix  has attempted to improve voice
>>quality in recent versions of Dectalk 4.6, I think 4.3 and 4.4 sound the
>>best.
>>Blake
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>>[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Alex Hall
>>Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:33 PM
>>To: DECtalk Discussions
>>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk for XP
>>
>>How is 4.4's quality? Many people say that 4.3 is good and all other
>>versions sound horrible.  Not needing to have demo.txt as my only file 
>>would
>>be really great (playdec.exe never worked for me).
>>
>>Have a great day,
>>Alex
>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Blake Roberts" <beroberts at hughes.net
>>>To: "'DECtalk Discussions'" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com Date sent: Sat,
>>>28 Feb 2009 18:18:44 -0500
>>>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk for XP
>>
>>>Jahmal,
>>>You can get two versions of Dectalk that work great on Windows XP
>>from
>>>www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/software
>>>On that page, you can  get either Dectalk 4.4 or 4.3.  I prefer
>>Dectalk 4.4
>>>because you can load any file with a .en extension into the
>>software.  Lots
>>>of people prefer version 4.3, however.  Dectalk 4.3's limitation
>>is the file
>>>to be loaded has to be called demo.txt.  Both versions I
>>mentioned do not
>>>require installation.  Just extract the zip file into a folder
>>and run the
>>>program.
>>>Blake
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>>>[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jahmal
>>Lovato
>>>Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 5:50 PM
>>>To: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>>>Subject: [DECtalk] dectalk for XP
>>
>>>Hi, my computer was just replaced with one with windows XP on it.
>>>Where can I download dectalk for windows XP?
>>>Thank you,
>>>Jahmal
>>
>>
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