[DECtalk] how to uninstall sapi5 dectalk properly?

Jake Gross datajake at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 09:48:11 EDT 2020


A couple weeks ago, I reuploaded the installer that fixes this
problem. If you install that build and then uninstall it, the voices
will not show up after uninstalling.


On 7/26/20, mattias <mj at mjw.se> wrote:
> 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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