[DECtalk] TEST

Jayson Smith ratguy at insightbb.com
Tue Jun 28 13:18:42 EDT 2011 

Hi,

I actually wasn't responding to that last message, but that's the one I hit 
reply to. I was actually responding to your thought yesterday that you might 
have been removed from the list for your earlier comments. That's not going 
to happen.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Dectalk at aol.com>
To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] TEST


> You miss understood me.  I'm not concerned about  being removed from the
> list.  Corine in no way wants anyone to see the  prototype.  So I was 
> saying,
> the link to the prototype will only work until  Corine tells Dave to take 
> it
> down.  Or, the site my  crash.
>
>
> SNOOPI BOTTEN
>
>
> In a message dated 6/28/2011 11:10:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> ratguy at insightbb.com writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> Let me just repeat something after all this discussion.  Snoopi, you are
> not
> being removed from this list. I am the only person on  Earth with the
> authority to remove people from this list or do any other  administrative
> job. And as far as I'm concerned, this whole discussion is  valuable.
> Nobody
> will be removed from this list for anything they said or  may say on this
> topic.
>
> I want to state something else too. As I see  it, there are several 
> schools
> of DECtalk users and fans. There are some  who like the DECtalk speech and
> probably would use it with their screen  reader if they could, or maybe 
> use
> it along with a text to MP3 program  such as Text Aloud, but don't have 
> any
> other more elaborate use for it.  Then there are those who think it's cool
> that DECtalk can sing and do all  this neat stuff and enjoy listening to
> others' creations, but don't have a  clue how to actually make DECtalk do
> any
> of those things. Then there are  probably several classes of more advanced
> DECtalk users who, at the high  end, could probably transcribe arbitrary
> text
> into phonemes in their  sleep. These are the people making the elaborate
> DECtalk songs and skits.  And finally, there are the users with
> disabilities
> requiring them to use  DECtalk to speak and/or sing. These users almost
> certainly fit into all  the previous classes of users I've discussed. I 
> fit
> somewhere in the third  class of users, the more advanced DECtalkists. So
> as
> you can see, this  SAPI is obviously targeted toward the more basic user,
> who
> just wants to  use it with their screen reader or other SAPI-enabled
> applications,  nothing more.
>
> Regarding the Speak windows, yes it's true that new  hardware and new
> operating systems might come along under which the Speak  windows won't
> run.
> However, all is not truly lost even then. As long as,  say, a virtual
> machine
> running XP can run under whatever native  hardware/OS is being used, Speak
> can then be run under that. Not the most  ideal solution I do admit, but
> still, it's better than nothing.
>
> I  personally would like to see the SAPI provide all DECtalk's features,
> but
> it's clear to me that, for whatever reason, that's not going to  happen.
> Jayson
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From:  <Dectalk at aol.com>
> To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent:  Tuesday, June 28, 2011 9:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] TEST
>
>
>>  _http://davesvideoservicesco.startlogic.com/test2/_
>>  (http://davesvideoservicesco.startlogic.com/test2/)
>>
>> Ok, we  have an unstable prototype that keeps  crashing.  I'm forcing
> Dave
>> to keep it up until Corine tells him to remove  it.  It  talks, but I
>> haven't
>> been able to get it to say anything  this  morning.
>>
>> Basically the plan is to reset it to  Klattalk settings  but call it
>> Dectalk
>> Classic.   And, it won't sing.
>>
>>
>> SNOOPI  BOTTEN
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/28/2011 8:42:05 A.M.  Eastern Daylight Time,
>> bmisch2002 at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> so  how  is that version coming along and are the other languages going
> to
>> be included  or just us english?
>>
>>
>> On  Jun 27, 2011, at 6:33 PM, FRIDO ORDEMANN  wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> There are other users of  DECtalk than those who use  it for singing.
>>
>>
>>  ____________________________________
>> From: "_Dectalk at aol.com_  (mailto:Dectalk at aol.com) " <_Dectalk at aol.com_
>>  (mailto:Dectalk at aol.com) >
>> To: _dectalk at bluegrasspals.com_  (mailto:dectalk at bluegrasspals.com)
>> Sent: Mon, June 27, 2011  2:10:43  PM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk]  TEST
>>
>>  Actually I was scared I was  removed for exploding on the list last
> night.
>> I also find it odd that  Corine never apologized for her  misleading 
>> post.
>> I'm still in total  shock at how her post was  worded.  And to post that
> on
>> the list when we  all have a  speak window or other form of Dectalk.
> Heck,
>> if
>> I did  have  a singing SAPI, why would anyone buy her non-singing
> version?
>>
>> That post just totally made no  sense to  me.  I still feel bad about my
>> response, but I was and  still  am angry.
>>
>>
>> SNOOPI   BOTTEN
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/27/2011 1:22:03 P.M.  Eastern  Daylight Time,
>> _linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com_  (mailto:linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com) writes:
>>
>> Your  message  came through. It's all good.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On 6/27/2011  12:58  PM, _Dectalk at aol.com_ (mailto:Dectalk at aol.com)
> wrote:
>> My mail got too full, so I'm just making sure  everything  is ok.
>>
>>
>> SNOOPI BOTTEN
>>
>>
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