[DECtalk] legality of decTalk?

[Josh Kennedy]

Yes it is, but they do not seem very responsive at all to the end-user. And they only seem to support one version of decTalk. 
Version 4.6.4 and its only an sdk. So does this mean that earlier versions are abanadonware and we can do what we wish with them? 


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From: mattias jonsson
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 14:59
To: DECtalk
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] legality of decTalk?

josh, yes are the company not called fonix talk?
Den 13 juli 2019 8:57:24 em skrev Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com>:
Hi,
Just curious, since there are legal and illegal versions of eloquence out there i.e. CodeFactory sells sapi5 and other eloquence for use with NVDA and sapi5… well is it the same with decTalk? Is decTalk owned by a company and does that company still charge money for it? Or are some software versions of decTalk charged for, and others, abandonware? Is that why there is a lot of decTalk stuff floating around, because the newest stuff is owned by a company while the older decTalk stuff like 4.6 and below are abandonware and nobody cares what you do with them anymore? I remember at one time, decTalk was the most expensive synthesizer box you could get for your computer 30 or 35 years ago, and it was the most popular and people who had speaking disabilities used decTalk to sing and to use it as a very expressive voice if they wished. I bet keynote gold is just some sort of modified decTalk. I wonder if decTalk is the root of all the later klatt-based synthesizers, eloquence, truVoice, keynote gold, infovox230, etcetera? It seems like decTalk still has the most flexibility and can do the most stuff. 
 
Josh
 
 
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