[DECtalk] User dictionaries for Speak windows

[ebruckert Bruckert]

    I'm busy today but I will send versions of the user Dic. T
On in all honesty I can't remember if there were different versions, but
there certainly weren't many.
One of the main differences in the know of version was I tuned the frication
or high-frequency noise is stronger because of signal loss going to the
transmitters through regular telephone lines. I am slowly working on a new
version I want your feedback but understand this is a stepwise process so I
need feedback on both what you like and what you don't like. Attached is a
very short piece of Paul. The way the gains of the vocal track have to be
tuned I'm only going to focus on Paul or perhaps a different voice if you'd
prefer until we get closer to what we want. I'm almost afraid to mention
something, but I have archived the last research DECtalk version that Dennis
was working on when he died, I may try to get it running obviously it was
never finished. In that regard does anybody know of a utility that can
convert an old 16 bit sound file into a wave file?

 Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> wrote:

> 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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