[DECtalk] INtro and Question

[Raymond Grote]

Hi,
I've herd that there is a way to get jaws 11 and 12 to work with Dectalk 
access 32, but it requires some dirty work and overwriting the eloquence 
driver or something like that. Some people have posted how to do it on this 
list.
If you found the Sapi Dectalk that I'm thinking of, then the quality is 
inferior to what the old Dectalk used to be as you might know. But, maybe 
you have a different one. Where did you find it?
I know that none of the companies that developed Dectalk created a Sapi 
dectalk, it's probably very similar to the Eloquence driver in that respect.
Hope this can clear some things up.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doris and Chris" <chipmunks at gmx.net>
To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 2:48 PM
Subject: [DECtalk] INtro and Question


> 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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