[DECtalk] getting the software dectalk run time for linux working with any linux screen reader

[Alex H.]

TTSynth is old eloquence and you can't find it anywhere anymore.

I bought Voxin ni 2012, for something like $10. If you don't have that, well....
I think it even works in 64-bit systems now, but not sure. I ran it in
a Ubuntu 12.04 VM for about a year with no major issues.

Hart, any recordings of DEC 5.0? I couldn't get my hands on it before
they stopped distributing it. Another dead and forgotten piece of
software, thank you Fonix.

Alex

On 7/11/14, Carlos Fernandez <cf530a at gmail.com> wrote:
> Two things:
> TTSynth was eloquence, at least from everything I've read.
> Eloquence is, as far as I know, still usable on linux if you install
> voxin. Unfortunately, this is a paid product, so many do not have this.
> I just stick to eSpeak when I am running linux. I would also recommend
> ekho if you also speak Chinese or Korean.
>
> Carlos
> On 7/11/2014 02:18, Tony Baechler wrote:
>> The short version is no, it's not going to happen.  TTSynth was basically
>> a
>> prepackaged DECtalk for Linux but is now abandoned.  The Windows software
>> version will never work with Linux.  Since TTSynth is no longer supported
>> and was commercial, you aren't going to find it.  Even if you found it
>> illegally, it's precompiled so would probably not work with newer
>> libraries.
>>   It suffers from the same issues as IBM Viavoice in that it only runs on
>> very old 32-bit libraries which are no longer supported.  Your only
>> software
>> choices for Speakup are ESpeak and FLite.  Besides, all software synths
>> require a Speakup connector and I don't know if the ones for ViaVoice or
>> TTSynth are even still downloadable.
>>
>> On 2014-07-10 06:38 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
>>> Hi, I have a dectalk express I am using on my desktop with both windows
>>> and
>>> linux installed using the speakup screen reader and was just wondering
>>> if
>>> anyone here has managed to get the linux software version of dectalk
>>> working
>>> with any linux screen reader?  I remember a long time ago someone had
>>> managed to do this but am not sure what they did to make this happen.
>>> Nick
>>> Gawronski
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