[DECtalk] How to use Say
Alex H.
linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 12:40:24 EDT 2011
Hi,
Awesome little program! I also tried DT access32 4.4 standalone and
the 4.6 install versions, and that didn't work either. Only
dectalk.dll that seems to work is the one from the SAPI demo.
Be cool to find a dectalk 5.0 dectalk.dll and plug that in and see how
it works..
Alex
On 7/10/11, ebruckert Bruckert <edbruckert at gmail.com> wrote:
> opps, sorry about the microsoft runtime problem thst dimply means it was
> co,piled as a debug,
> so if I will find one without the need. Since I have the runtime I didn't
> notice the problem sorry.
>
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's how to use the Say program Ed posted earlier today. Before we even
>> get started, you must have a dectalk.dll that's compatible with Say. If
>> you
>> have the version of Speak using the first attempt by Enable to create a
>> SAPI
>> DECtalk which was circulated limitedly a few months ago, you have a
>> compatible dectalk.dll. Note that the access32.dll distributed with Window
>> Eyes appears not to be compatible. It seems it's been modified probably so
>> it can only be used within WE. If you try renaming it to dectalk.dll and
>> using say, you're told there are no license units available.
>>
>> Also you will need a Microsoft Visual C Runtime library. You've probably
>> got
>> several versions of this all over your system. I used the one from JAWS
>> 11.
>> In my case, it's in my settings\enu folder as msvcr71.dll. This needs to
>> be
>> renamed to msvcrtd.dll. You'll also need a DECtalk dictionary. Once again,
>> if you have the Speak produced earlier this year, you have this. So in
>> total, here's the directory listing you need.
>>
>> dectalk.dll
>> dtalk_us.dic
>> msvcrtd.dll
>> say.exe
>>
>> Once all these files are in a directory, just run say. Now type something,
>> hit Enter, and it will be spoken. Running Say with the /? argument will
>> provide help text. For everyone's convenience, I've pasted this help text
>> in
>> this message. It's a nice little program. Thanks, Ed!
>>
>> Unfortunately, as far as I know there's no way to use this with DECtalk
>> 4.3,
>> since speak43.exe seems to have the DECtalk code bundled in itself rather
>> than as a separate DLL. Now here's the Say help text. Hope you can use it.
>> Jayson
>>
>> SAY [options] [text]
>>
>> Help Options:
>>
>> -h or -? = Help. Outputs this file to the console. This
>> option cancels any others on the command line.
>>
>>
>> Output Options:
>>
>> -w outFile = Convert text into specified wave file instead of
>> speaking to the sound device.
>>
>> -l[t] outFile = Turn on text logging, which logs all input text
>> to a file. This text includes any pre and post
>> commands as well as commands sent to DECtalk by
>> the SAY program itself.
>>
>> Since this is the default logging mode, the 't'
>> immediately following the '-l' is optional.
>>
>> -ls outFile = Turn on syllable logging, which logs each
>> syllable to a file.
>>
>> -lp outFile = Turn on phoneme logging, which converts the
>> input text to phonemes. This is useful if you
>> want to get DECtalk to sing. You convert the
>> text to phonemes and then insert the tone
>> commands into the phoneme file.
>>
>> If no output options are specified, SAY sends its output to the
>> installed sound device, ususally a sound card. Only one output
>> option can be specified; if you specify more than one, the last one
>> on the command line is used.
>>
>>
>> Input Options:
>>
>> -pre preText = Text to be passed to DECtalk before the normal
>> input.
>> This is useful for passing initializing commands to
>> DECtalk that would normally not be part of the
>> input.
>> If the prefix text has spaces, it must be enclosed
>> in
>> quotes. An example would be "[:phoneme on]" or
>> "[:nb :ra200]".
>>
>> The prefix text is "forced" out before the input
>> text
>> is read.
>>
>> -post postText = Text to be passed to DECtalk after the normal
>> input.
>> This is useful for passing terminating commands to
>> DECtalk that would normally not be part of the
>> input.
>> If the postfix text has spaces, it must be enclosed
>> in quotes. An example would be "[:phoneme off]" or
>> "The End".
>>
>> The "normal" input is "forced" out before the
>> postfix
>> text is read.
>>
>> text = Text appearing on command line is spoken. The text
>> to be spoken can either come from the standard
>> input or from the command line.
>>
>> Anything on the command line that is not an option
>> will be interpreted as text, as will anything
>> following
>> it on the command line. In other words, text to
>> be spoken must appear on the command line after
>> all options.
>>
>> If the *first* word in the text has a dash (-) or
>> slash (/) as its first character, you must precede
>> it with another dash or slash. For example, to
>> tell
>> DECtalk to say the number -123, you would type the
>> command
>>
>> SAY --123
>>
>> This is necessary to avoid having SAY interpret the
>> number as a command line option.
>>
>> If you embed DECtalk commands into your text, you
>> must
>> enclose them in quotes if they contain spaces.
>> This is because SAY treats each space-delimited
>> command-line argument as a separate "word",
>> while DECtalk commands must be processed as
>> single "words" by the SAY program.
>>
>> If no text is specified, SAY will take its input from the standard
>> input.
>> For example, you could have SAY speak a directory listing in Betty's
>> voice by typing
>>
>> DIR | SAY -pre "[:nb]"
>>
>> or you could just type the command
>>
>> SAY
>>
>> and then enter text at the console. In this case, SAY speaks each
>> line after you press RETURN, and exits after you press CTRL-Z. If
>> you want SAY to take its input from a file, use file redirection as
>> in the following example, which reads the file FOO.TXT in Harry's
>> voice.
>>
>> SAY -pre "[:nh]" < FOO.TXT
>>
>>
>> Dictionary Options:
>>
>> -d userDict = Loads the specified user dictionary before
>> speaking. This dictionary is loaded in place of
>> any default user dictionary determined by DECtalk.
>>
>> Version information:
>>
>> -v = Displays the version of the dll.
>>
>>
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