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

[Tony Baechler]

OK, so apparently my memory about TTSynth is faulty.  I was sure it was
DECtalk, but others have said otherwise.  Regardless, you can't get it
anymore anyway so it doesn't matter.  Too bad there isn't a Linux version of
DECtalk, but oh well.  That's the problem with proprietary software.

On 2014-07-11 11:51 AM, Alex H. wrote:
> 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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