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

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I bought the dectalk run time software a long time ago from Fonix 
and am totally against getting software if you have to go breaking the 
law to get it as who knows what else that software could have in it.  
Would contacting Fonix about the newest software dectalk for linux do 
any good?  I think I remember someone else on this list contacting 
someone at Fonix about a newer dectalk demo that ran under windows but 
not sure who it was or what they managed to get out of it.  If anyone on 
this list has any contacts at Fonix please pass along this message to 
them as I would not mind buying a good quality synthisizer for this 
operating system.  Nick Gawronski
On 7/11/2014 2:18 AM, 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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