[DECtalk] INtro and Question

Doris and Chris chipmunks at gmx.net
Tue Aug 2 14:48:40 EDT 2011


Hi,

I just subscribed to this list after finding a link to it during an 
online search.

I enjoy different synthesizers and synthesthizer voices. I have a 
special affection for DECTalk as it was one of the first synthetic 
voices I came in contact with in the form of Text Assist, the 
original one) that came bundled with my creative Soundblaster card in 
the mid 90's even befoer I lost my sight.

when I did lose my sight in 1998, I used Text Assist with jaws 3.0 
until we got my hardware synth shiped and until jaws 3.2 introduced eloquence.

Recent versions of jaws , that is 11.0 and 12.0 are not able to use 
Access 32 anymore. Is there a solution to this, that is is there a 
driver update that I might be able to download somewhere?

I recently came across a sapi 5 version of Software DECTalk speech. 
This works adequately with jaws 11 and 12. I stumbled across this 
sapi 5 version of dectalk while doing a google searchfor something 
entirley unrelated. I have since attempted to research the source of 
this sapi 5 version of dectalk. I was attempting to find out if this 
is an oficial version of dectalk or if it is similar to the eloquence 
driver for the free open source screenreader nvda. I would appreciate 
more information on this. I am trying to find out if it is safe to 
pass on this sapi 5 version of DECTAlk as I know several people who 
miss their dectalk and who would love to use this version.

Thanks much.

Doris




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