[DECtalk] SAPI questions

Brandon Misch bmisch2002 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 00:55:24 EDT 2011


not to mention you could and can also generate dtmf tones with that version. 

On Apr 5, 2011, at 12:27 AM, Alex H. wrote:

> Hmm. Never knew that. Cool!
> 
> alex
> 
> On 4/4/11, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> the only screen reader and dectalk combination that plays nice well, at
>> least with changing inflection and stuff like that is the dectalk that comes
>> with system access. if you put dectalk commands and words the pitch and
>> stuff will change like in the dectalk demos.
>> 
>> On Apr 4, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Alex H. wrote:
>> 
>>> Yep, but how does one pipe the text into the synth? Most screen
>>> readers hav punctuation rules which override DECTalk's default
>>> behavior. If you use DECTalk Access32 with JAWS for instance and type
>>> [:phone on], it will just say colon phone on.
>>> Then there are spacing issues I've experienced. I've tried to make
>>> access32 play nice with JFW to sing stuff, but it hates spaces! Even
>>> modifying the .jcf file to speak all punctuation and turning the
>>> actual words to symbals did very little.
>>> 
>>> Would we just use ttsapp.exe or some other direct piping method and
>>> feed DT that way?
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> Alex
>>> 
>>> On 4/2/11, ebruckert Bruckert <edbruckert at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> There is no SAPI issue here at all. The singing mode is a subset of
>>>> phonemic
>>>> mode and use functional in all versions of DECtalk.
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Alex H. <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I also would like to know what sort of things are included with the
>>>>> synth. My assumption is that it can sing rather easily, so how would
>>>>> one go about doing that with the new SAPI version?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Alex
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 3/31/11, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If the downloadable version is ready, hopefully some questions can be
>>>>>> answered. I'm wanting to know some info.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What all is included? Just the synth itself? Or is a reader/converter
>>>>>> program also included?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Is there a pronunciation dictionary included?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Can the end user change speech parameters using traditional DECtalk
>>>>> inline
>>>>>> commands?
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>> 
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