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

[mattias]

but stop here
are it not a linux dectalk?
hmm i have run it on linux
Tony Baechler skrev 2014-07-12 08:33:
> 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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