[DECtalk] concerns about sapi voices on grossgang.com

[Jake McMahan]

There is a program called balibolka that combines the two systems together 
so you can use all of the voices.  This is a text reader application. 
There's also a program called DSpeech that I use that can use sapi4 and 
sapi5 voices.  But as far as I know, I don't think there's a program that 
will let your screen readers access the sapi4 voices unless it supports 
sapi4 directly.
And to try to answer your question furthermore there doesn't seem to be a 
program that will convert sapi4 voices to be used on sapi5, they are two 
totally different APIs.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jayson Smith
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 10:45 AM
To: DECtalk Discussions
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] concerns about sapi voices on grossgang.com

I know that. What I'm wanting to know is if there's any program to make 
SAPI4 synths work under SAPI5 so you can use them with applications that 
only support SAPI5.
Jayson


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake McMahan" <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:39:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] concerns about sapi voices on grossgang.com

> There was never a version of eloquence made for sapi5, as it's a pretty 
> old
> synth and isn't being developped any more that I know of.
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Jayson Smith
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 5:18 AM
> To: DECtalk Discussions
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] concerns about sapi voices on grossgang.com
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to adapt a SAPI4 voice to work under SAPI5? I'd love to
> use Eloquence, L&H, etc. with Sapi5 programs, but I assume they're Sapi4.
> Jayson
>
> On 1/5/2014 4:24 AM, Piotr Machacz wrote:
> > This is now in the same league as the Sapi5 real speak voices that were
> > bundled with JAWS 8 and 9. This version of Eloquence is the one that 
> > came
> > bundled with Window-eyes,, all the way to version 7 when they switched 
> > to
> > a direct driver. So, I really don’t think this is much of a problem.
> >
> > On 04 Jan 2014, at 11:26 pm, brandon T <brandongold98 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Looking through the section on grossgang.com in the folder
> >> dectalk\sapi voices, I'm a bit concerned about the Eloquence and
> >> ViaVoice entries. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost certain that
> >> these voices are illegal. For NVDA users, including myself, it would
> >> probably make NVDA users think it's ok to run eloquence legally. But
> >> there's a blog post on the NVDA site stating that this is illegal. So
> >> are these actually legal copies that can be used with NVDA no problem?
> >> Or were they taken out of something?
> >>
> >> I just don't want to see us get in trouble because of this.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Brandon
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