[DECtalk] how to uninstall sapi5 dectalk properly?

Sun Jul 26 09:28:10 EDT 2020

i uninstalled jakes dectalk and now have some unusable voices in the 
sapi5 list

how to remove them?

i dont find them in the windows registry

Den 2020-06-26 kl. 10:28, skrev Jake Gross:
> Hi,
> This bug has been fixed
> Apparently InnoSetup doesn't delete registry keys that the installer
> creates automatically. For each registry entry, I had to specify the
> uninsdeletevalue and uninsdeletekeyifempty flags. Try reinstalling and
> uninstalling to remove the registry keys.
> Jake
>
> On 6/25/20, Brandon Tyson <brandongold98 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yep, confirmed. I noticed this too, and will see if we can figure out what's
>> going on.
>>
>> In the meantime, you might want to delete the voice tokens from
>> hklm\software\microsoft\speech\voices\tokens
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> B
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Jun 25, 2020, at 6:46 PM, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> I installed decTalk sapi5 but I decided I did not like the 5.0 version of
>>> that particular decTalk, I uninstalled it and the voices remain in the
>>> sapi5 list of voices but they no longer talk. How do I remove them from
>>> the list? Something is not getting unregistered during the uninstall of
>>> dectalk sapi5 but I am not sure what to delete to get rid of the leftover
>>> voice entries for jake’s decTalk sapi5. Also for whatever reason it is not
>>> nearly as responsive as espeak sapi5 or eloquence sapi5 so yet another
>>> reason why I want to uninstall completely.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Josh
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>>>
>>> From: Brandon Tyson
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2020 14:06
>>> To: DECtalk
>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk.dll from dictool
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd be interested in that (a SAPI5). I was talking to Jake about all
>>> this off list a couple days ago and this is really interesting to me,
>>> how this all works.
>>>
>>> I'll have to take a look at those audio files.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> B
>>>
>>> On 6/25/20, Jake Gross <datajake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Since the DECtalk addon hasn't been updated to work with the latest
>>>> NVDA, it won't work with NVDA. Since this version of dectalk.dll
>>>> depends on a runtime DLL, the addon would have to also be modified so
>>>> it can locate the runtime DLL.
>>>> As for SAPI5, It might be possible to modify the SAPI5 interface to
>>>> interface with dectalk.dll rather than have DECtalk staticly linked in
>>>> sapi5.dll. This would make it possible to use a sapi5 version of any
>>>> dectalk.dll.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6/25/20, Isaac <bigikemusic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi, is there any possibility to either make this work with a screen
>>>>> reader
>>>>> through sapi or as an addon with nvda.
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Jake Gross" <datajake at gmail.com>
>>>>> To: "DECtalk" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2020 4:03 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk.dll from dictool
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I am attaching a WAV file of your text file through this version of
>>>>> DECtalk.
>>>>> I will look into finding a way to include the Visual Studio 2008 Debug
>>>>> runtime in a zip file with the other things.
>>>>> Jake
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/25/20, Aksel Leo Christoffersen <aksel at blindsigtmail.dk> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Jake,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm very interested in trying this version of DECtalk, but I don't
>>>>>> know
>>>>>> anything about visual studio. How can I get this up and running?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Otherwise, if this isn't possible, then could you maybe convert the
>>>>>> attached
>>>>>> textfile to a wave-file with this version. It's just a test-file I
>>>>>> made
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> test the various DECtalk voices.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards:
>>>>>> Aksel Christoffersen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>>>>>> Fra: Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] På vegne af
>>>>>> Jake
>>>>>> Gross
>>>>>> Sendt: 25. juni 2020 10:01
>>>>>> Til: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>>>>>> Emne: [DECtalk] dectalk.dll from dictool
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I noticed their was a version of dectalk.dll that came with the
>>>>>> dictool
>>>>>> program that was included with DECtalk Reader 1.
>>>>>> I couldn't get it to work initially, because it Required the
>>>>>> Microsoft
>>>>>> Visual Studio 2008 Debug runtime. I copied the dll, a dictionary, and
>>>>>> speak.exe to my Windows XP virtual machine with Visual Studio 2008,
>>>>>> and I
>>>>>> rendered the classic vermont.txt with this version of DECtalk.
>>>>>> I was quite surprised with the output. the dll  identifies itself as
>>>>>> version
>>>>>> 5.0, but it sounds more like version 4.3. That is interesting.
>>>>>> Jake
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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