[DECtalk] Rare version of IBM ViaVoice

Brandon Tyson brandongold98 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 13:48:44 EST 2020


Hi,

It might be best to wait for the add-on for now.

Thanks,

B

On 11/15/20, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> how do you use Danish Norwegian and Swedish and Cantonese in the other
> languages? Or should I just wait for the NVDA add on?
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Nov 15, 2020, at 05:59, mattias jonsson <mj at mjw.se> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> jake how to use swedish?
>>
>> Den 15 november 2020 11:50:50 skrev Jake Gross <datajake at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> One of my friends found a rather interesting version of IBM ViaVoice
>>> TTS, and I made an installer for it. This version has Concatenative
>>> voices at 8 kHZ, as well as the original formant voices.
>>> As far as languages go, you have all of your standard languages, but
>>> this version also includes Cantonese, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish,
>>> although those languages can't directly be used with SAPI4.
>>> I have uploaded 2 installers to the old_software_synths folder of my
>>> server. The file named viavoice6732l.exe only includes the formant
>>> voices, and the file named viavoice6732.7z includes all voices. The
>>> reason the full version is a 7Z is because InnoSetup can't compile a
>>> single executable that is over 2 GB, so the installer is split into 3
>>> files.
>>> These voices can also be used with NVDA with a custom addon, but we
>>> haven't released it yet. We are still trying to fix a few bugs.
>>> I would also like to add that Finish and SAPI support wasn't in the
>>> original version that we found. I took the finish voice data and SAPI
>>> DLL from HomePage Reader to make this  a more complete installation.
>>> I hope you enjoy our find.
>>> Jake
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