[DECtalk] question about Enable's Dectalk SAPI

[Carlos Fernandez]

Here is all of the information I, as a nonpurchaser of the product, have:
1. the dectalk uses version 4.61.
2. it includes a speak window that can sing.
3. The sapi5 version cannot sing.
4. There is no way to make the sapi5 engine sing without using the speak window.

HTH
Carlos
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dectalk at aol.com 
  To: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 5:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [DECtalk] question about Enable's Dectalk SAPI


  See, I'm trying to get on the Ellen Show because I believe I have an idea to make Dectalk really hot on a worldwide level.  If the Enable Rehab stuff sings, I can promote it if I get on the show.  Sorry, but if it can't sing, I won't ruin the reputation of MIT or Dennis Klatt by promoting it, I just won't!  But if it sings, it changes everything because it goes with what Dennis wanted.  He made it able to sing so people like me could be a singer.  I'm the most known, but a youtube search will bring up other disabled singers, and all of them have Dennis Klatt to thank.

  If I get on the Ellen show, I want to pitch an idea I have for a new animation movie that uses actual speech engines for the voices.  The point of the movie is, every voice counts.  For a disabled person who can only talk or sing using synthetic voices, a movie like this could be life changing.  And people at MIT need to be rewarded for their fine work.

  I was almost aborted at birth.  I had music in me that only came out when I had Dectalk, the only speech engine that could sing.  I'm not alone.  I wanted a singing SAPI, not for myself, but for the next generation.  I felt like I owe it to Dennis and still feel that way.  I would like my movie idea to get everyone messing around with Dectalk, not just the blind or disabled.  Because music units.  And I want to help that non-speaking kid fit in.  If I can just get on the Ellen Show, I think I can ignite a spark.  If I do, and if this takes off, you can bet other speech engines will be made to sing.  That's how you thank MIT, that's how you remember Dennis Klatt, and that's how you move forward.

  So again, this seriously sings?


  SNOOPI BOTTEN 

  In a message dated 3/20/2012 6:18:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ratguy at insightbb.com writes:
    I assume they're saying the Speak window included with the product sings, 
    not the SAPI version. I'm assuming here that the SAPI specification enforces 
    filtering which would block any attempts to make it sing. I don't have any 
    personal experience with this, since I haven't purchased the product. Don't 
    care for 4.61 so unless they start using a different version, I probably 
    won't be buying.
    Jayson

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: <Dectalk at aol.com>
    To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
    Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:15 PM
    Subject: Re: [DECtalk] question about Enable's Dectalk SAPI


    > Wait, it sings?  The Dectalk reader 1 sings?
    >
    >
    > SNOOPI BOTTEN
    >
    >
    > In a message dated 3/20/2012 3:56:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
    > linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com writes:
    >
    > Yes.
    >
    > On 3/20/12, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net>  wrote:
    >> Hi,
    >> Someone wrote on the listserv a while backthat  Enable Rehab's Dectalk
    > SAPI
    >> includes a speak window. Does the included  speak window sing?
    >>  Blake
    >>
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