[DECtalk] concerns about sapi voices on grossgang.com

Alex H. linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com
Sun Jan 5 11:58:50 EST 2014


SpeechHub is useless currently, not Rockbox, obviously. Just wanna clarify.

Dectalk rulz!
Alex

On 1/5/14, Alex H. <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> What pisses me off is Rockbox Utility. I want sapi4 support in that.
> They support a shitty synth like Festival, and yet can't support
> something like SAPI4? Someone needs to integrate SpeechHub support
> into Rockbox utility. At least then, it'll actually be doing
> something, rather than be yet another open-source fork of a fork of a
> fork of a fork of a bridge to another fork to some forks.
>
> Alex
>
> On 1/5/14, Jake McMahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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