[DECtalk] how to uninstall sapi5 dectalk properly?

Sun Jul 26 09:49:34 EDT 2020

yes but no link

Den 2020-07-26 kl. 15:48, skrev Jake Gross:
> 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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