[DECtalk] speaking of dectalk

Brandon Misch bmisch2002 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 2 22:44:10 EST 2011


that sounds better anyway. 

On Jan 2, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Johnny Lam wrote:

> hi, I think they should replace the convert to wav to mp3 instead. Since Wav 
> files take up more room than mp3 does.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 4:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] speaking of dectalk
> 
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'd like to point out something here. As far as I know, the SAPI version 
>> of
>> DECtalk hasn't been developed yet. The design for the thing may not even 
>> be
>> finalized yet. So there are going to be lots of questions for which 
>> nobody,
>> and I mean absolutely nobody, knows the answer. When will it be out? How
>> much will it cost? How big will it be? Will there be any new DECtalk
>> functionality?
>> 
>> One thing I'd love to see is an updated speak program like speak43, which
>> doesn't have a size limit on the file you can load into it as Speak43 
>> does.
>> Also, I'd love to see the "Convert to wav" option reenabled.
>> 
>> Jayson
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Brandon Misch" <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 7:39 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] speaking of dectalk
>> 
>> 
>>> thanks for the comments. i see what you mean. when this gets through, all
>>> my screen readers will finaly have a voice for dectalk and even nvda 
>>> users
>>> will be able to take advantage of this. can't wait. wonder how big the
>>> download would be.
>>> 
>>> On Jan 2, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Brandon, I myself see no need for a Jaws Dectalk driver, being that a
>>>> SAPI5
>>>> version of Dectalk will be created. Dectalk can then be accessed by
>>>> switching Jaws synth from Eloquence to SAPI5. That's a very interesting
>>>> point you make about whether or not the SAPI5 Dectalk will also be
>>>> SAPI4-compatible. I have noticed that some SAPI5 synthesizers also work
>>>> as
>>>> SAPI4 voices. I've never understood how a voice can be SAPI5 and SAPI4 
>>>> at
>>>> the same time.
>>>> These are just my thoughts. I know my comments do not adequately answer
>>>> your
>>>> questions.
>>>> Blake
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>>>> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Misch
>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 5:58 PM
>>>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] speaking of dectalk
>>>> 
>>>> will this be backwards compatible to sapi 4 or a new version of dectalk?
>>>> maybe there should be a jaws driver that works with this directly since
>>>> access 32 is broken.
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 2, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Corine Bickley wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Ed has kindly sent the CD we need to start to Enable Rehab. Now we
>>>> need to finalize some paperwork and then we can get started. MANY THANKS
>>>> ED!!!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hey this is Brandon. whatever happened to someone creating a
>>>> sapi 5 version of dectalk? never heard back on this list about it.
>>>> 
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