[DECtalk] Dectalk USB longer, better demo?

[Jayson Smith]

Hi again,

I am not involved in any way with the creation of this SAPI version, 
although I'm an excited potential user. However, I do know this. Unless 
something has changed or they have to include tons of extra stuff, the 
DECtalk SAPI will be much, much smaller than any of the human sampled voices 
out there. The reason is simple, DECtalk, as far as I know, never used any 
actual sampled human speech. And audio samples take up lots more space than 
code. Consider this if you will. Back in the days of the DECtalk PC card, if 
you looked at the card you'd swear it had all the DECtalk stuff on it. I 
mean, look at all those chips! But in truth, from how I understand it, the 
actual software which made it do its thing was loaded onto the card by a 
program called dt-load every time the computer booted. And I think the files 
comprising the DECtalk software took probably less than a megabyte. So it's 
going to be small. How small, I really don't know.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon Misch" <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Dectalk USB longer, better demo?


>i guess since you helped keep dectalk alive then you have all the source 
>codes for earlier versions do you know how big the file will be?
>
> On Jan 30, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Corine Bickley wrote:
>
>> Great idea, Alex. I'll do that soon. I'm Corine, the person who worked
>> with Dennis Klatt years ago when I was a student, and then later with
>> Ed Bruckert who has kept DECtalk alive for many years. We have a
>> programmer Peter who is getting the code ready for distribution. As
>> soon as I have the version running on my own computer, I'll create
>> some examples for comment. I agree - no one should send any money
>> until you get a chance to hear what you're buying.
>> corine
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Alex H. <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I know there's a few people on this list who have the dectalk USB, and
>>> I'm considering getting one but I won't have the money for some
>>> months. I have heard that it isn't the best compared to 4.3 etc, but
>>> I'm still interested in hearing it. The Access Solutions demo is a
>>> joke. It's very short, and their doubletalk USB demos are way better.
>>> Could somebody post a demo or two of the DECTalk USB singing and
>>> talking, maybe tweak a few of the voices? Thanks very much and have a
>>> great day!
>>>
>>> Alex
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