[DECtalk] purpose of the other DECtalk functionalities?

[Piotr Machacz]

That probably served a similar purpose, though wav files became a thing much later. Again, during dectalk’s time, in the early 90’s, sound cards were just starting to become a thing. And meanwhile you had this box that had perfectly capable sound hardware, so I guess the play function was added as a convenience feature.
> On 17 Sep 2015, at 23:31, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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> What about playing wav files? Did that serve a purpose back in those days?r
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> On 09/17/15 01:07 PM, Edward Bruckert via Dectalk wrote:
>> yes inade a typo lazy and yes dectalk was used in telephone response systems one
>> was a bill collection business at the time dectalk achieved
>> a better result — more intimidating
>>> On Sep 17, 2015, at 4:32 AM, Piotr Machacz via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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>>> I would assume one of the main applications for dectalk, when it was starting to be developed, would be in various telephony applications, so maybe this is why those features exist.
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>>>> On 17 Sep 2015, at 10:30, Lowell Prange via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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>>>> lazy.
>>>> 
>>>> based on the keys proximal to the characters he typed.
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>>>> On 09/16/2015 02:22 PM, Ulysses Garcia via Dectalk wrote:
>>>>> Good question.
>>>>> I do not understand what ;azt c means. Could you kindly elaborate?
>>>>> Many thanks.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 16/09/2015 13:48, Edward Bruckert via Dectalk wrote:
>>>>>> simple answer — we were ;azt c
>>>>>>> On Sep 16, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>> Hi guys, I'm wondering something. So, why exactly were the functionalities like dialing phone numbers, generating tones, and playing wav files ported to DECtalk software? I know that they might have served a purpose in the days of DECtalk hardware, but why exactly were they ported to the software DECtalk?
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