[DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows

Jayson Smith ratguy at insightbb.com
Mon May 16 12:12:17 EDT 2011


Hi,

I downloaded that but it doesn't seem to work for the Speak43 window. I 
assume that means each version of DECtalk has its own dictionary format. To 
me, that seems a bit weird and breaks forward and backward compatibility. 
But whatever.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex H." <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows


> Hi Jayson,
>
> I know there's a utility to make user dictionaries for the DECTalk
> USB, and you can download the files on Access Solutions' website. I
> don't know if they'd work on the demo Speak windows though.
>
> Alex
>
> On 5/15/11, 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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