[DECtalk] Elan sayso demo

mattias mj at mjw.se
Tue Jan 27 10:43:30 EST 2015


yes in the infovox4
Blake Roberts via Dectalk skrev 2015-01-27 14:45:
> Lucy is one of the voices.
> Blake
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> Existed lucy on 2004?
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> please link on rusian and polish forum. recieve greting for slovenia.
> Dne 25.1.2015 ob 10:58 je Piotr Machacz via Dectalk zapisal(a):
>> I first found it on a Polish forum years ago, then lost the file, then
>> found it again on a russian one. The original link, which was also
>> hosted on Dropbox is now dead but I managed to find it on one of my
>> drives.
>> To your second question, no, but I do know the person who created it
>> who wants to remain anonymous. I just helped with testing, sent the
>> links out and occasionally prodded development forward. It actually
>> still needs work but said person "can't be bothered" right now... So
>> we'll see.
>> On 1/25/2015 6:48 AM, Jake Gross via Dectalk wrote:
>>> Thank you. Where did you find this?
>>> p.s. Are you the same person who created the softvoice nvda addon?
>>>
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>>> 2015 10:08:48 -0500
>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Elan sayso demo
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>>> Very interesting find! Thanks for posting about it. These voices from
>>> 2004
>>> might not be fully compatible with Windows 7. I say might because
>>> selecting the voices in JAWS and NVDA results in silence and JAWS
>>> appears to crash.
>>> However, I can use the Elan voices in TextAloud with no problems at all.
>>> Strange... Although I will probably end up uninstalling them soon, I
>>> might reinstall them in the future. Since the installer was created
>>> prior to Windows 7, I suppose difficulties like the ones I experience
>>> can be anticipated.
>>> Blake
>>>
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>>> Piotr Machacz via Dectalk
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:15 AM
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>>> Subject: [DECtalk] Elan sayso demo
>>>
>>> Since people are sharing their finds, here's something kind of
>>> interesting. This is a 2004 or there abouts demo of Acapela Elan
>>> sayso TTS. Elan speech had at this point purchased another company,
>>> Digalo, and also included their engines and they also made a few of their
> own.
>>> This  is a demo that you could get for free from Elan by request that
>>> includes all of their offerings, plus documentation as well as SAPI 4
>>> and 5 API's. It includes quite a few voices in many languages,
>>> including very old versions of Aaron, Graham and Lucy, as well as
>>> others that you've probably never heard before. The catch? It's a
>>> 30-day trial, except someone didn't check the code right so as a
>>> result once the demo runs out, you can just uninstall and install it
>>> again and you'll get another 30 days. It definitely installs and
>>> works on XP, I'm not sure about newer WIndows versions.
>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1584584/ela%20sayso%20tts.7z
>>>
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