[DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows

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I think I can answer this.  Classic Dectalk is  like both the 4.4. Speak 
window and the Dectalk USB.  They have a classic  sound we like, it sings, it 
dials, it does tones, and you can modify the  voices.  That's to me is 
classic Dectalk.
 
 
SNOOPI BOTTEN 
 
 
In a message dated 5/16/2011 7:34:09 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu writes:

What do  you mean by classic? There have been many different versions
of DECtalk  over the years. I am most familiar with the one that Dennis
Klatt used at  MIT when Martha and I were members of the Speech Group
there headed by  Prof. Ken Stevens, You may favor a different version,
perhaps one that was  put out by DEC, or SmartModular, or Force, or
modified by one of the  companies that licensed DECtalk for sale with a
particular screen reader. I  don't have good information about all
those versions, only my memory of the  one we used at MIT.

We (Enable) have a couple of versions of DECtalk  that we are
considering for release as "SAPI DECtalk". One older one, 4.3,  has
been SAPI-ized and works with jvda and JAWS, it seems, but I have  to
tune up the voices to match the version of DECtalk that we used  at
MIT. We also need to test 4.3 with various current operating  systems
and screen readers. The original DECtalk was written for VAX  computers
(sold by DEC and used at MIT). The Windows versions do not sound  the
same as the VAX version, due to differences in the way C code  is
implemented on different platforms.

I'll leave it to others to  compare the voice quality to versions you
each use and  prefer.
corine

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Alex H.  <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Corine,
>
>  Does this mean that you have found a classic version of DECTAlk to use
>  for the sapi?
>
> Alex
>
> On 5/15/11, Corine Bickley  <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu> wrote:
>> Snoopi will be in  charge of creating user dictionaries for Enable
>> products, such as  SAPI DECtalk. We're not ready yet to announce the
>> release of SAPI  DECtalk, but hope to be soon.
>>
>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at  6:04 PM, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> 
wrote:
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to  create/generate/compile user dictionaries for 
the
>>> Speak  windows? I know back in the days of the DECtalk PC, it shipped  
with
>>> software to take a properly-formatted text file and  compile it into a
>>> binary
>>> dictionary file. I  still have one of those files, and it doesn't work 
as a
>>> user  dictionary in Speak43. Are there tools out there to generate  user
>>> dictionaries, or are they pretty much just internal tools  which should
>>> have
>>> been distributed but  weren't? Snoopi, Ed, Corine, can anyone help here?
>>>  Thanks.
>>>
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