[DECtalk] something i heard

[Brandon Misch]

actually the dectalk that ms uses sounds a lot like my dectalk usb wich sounds close to 5.0 for some voices 

On May 9, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Jayson Smith wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I, for one, would love to see a SAPI version of a classic DECtalk. What I'd 
> probably say is 4.4 or earlier. As I've said before, if I could choose any 
> version at all, 4.2CD would get my vote.
> 
> For one thing, the 5.0 SAPI which was posted to this list a few days ago 
> seems to me to be a bit sluggish, especially when speaking several 
> sentences. It speaks the sentence, then it seems like it waits a bit long to 
> me. Hopefully a different DECtalk would address this problem. I never had a 
> copy of the SAPI Enable was working on, so I have zero knowledge of how it 
> did in this regard.
> 
> Another thing is, for people who know what DECtalk used to be, going back to 
> the classic DECtalk would recreate that. I never will forget a few years ago 
> my dad got a new cell phone with MobileSpeak. When selecting which speech 
> synthesizer we wanted, one of the choices was DECtalk. I don't know if 
> Eloquence was among the choices or not. But anyway, we both thought DECtalk 
> was the best choice. We were familiar with what DECtalk used to be, and I at 
> least thought Fonix was trying to revive the classic DECtalk sound. I was 
> horribly disappointed when MobileSpeak ran for the first time. Actually I 
> think that version sounded almost identical to the DECtalk 5.0 SAPI that was 
> posted to this list, so they were probably using 5.0 or something very close 
> to it.
> Jayson
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Corine Bickley" <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 8:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] something i heard
> 
> 
>> yes, but i haven't heard of anyone being interested as many have found
>> ways to get a DECtalk SAPI from friends. i'll watch the responses to
>> see if anyone still needs DECtalk SAPI and if so, i'll notify this
>> list when we have tested all the voices and resolved whatever issues
>> we find. do you know why it would be useful for Enable to make a SAPI
>> DECtalk available? if there's no reason to, we'll just stop working on
>> it as it would be a big waste of time and money to continue.
>> 
>> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> o ok. glad that's the case. is work still being done on the sapi dectalk?
>>> 
>>> On May 7, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Corine Bickley wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Enable products do NOT use Fonix talk.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hey guys i let someone hear a demo of the speak window for the sapi 
>>>>> dectalk that enable is selling and that person said that this is based 
>>>>> on fonix talk. don't know if anyone came up with that yet.
>>>>> 
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