[DECtalk] question about Kurzweil 1000 voices

[Don]

On 6/15/2021 2:56 PM, Blake Roberts via Dectalk wrote:
> I like the James voice which I installed with Kate and Paul as part of the
> Kurzweil demo. I assume the voice will stop working after the evaluation period
> has expired.

If you are curious and don't want to wait, just set your clock forward
(in the BIOS setup so Windows doesn't see your action).

Note that if it DOES expire and become inaccessible, it may remember
that you have already tried the trial and prevent you from reinstalling
again.  So, if you care about this, image your disk before dicking with
the clock.  This lets you later turn the clock back and reinstall that
image to return to where you were.

This is also (an annoying!) way to extend trial periods -- if you don't
mind keeping your clock "in the past".  If you run under a VM, it is
considerably less annoying.

> I already figured out that uninstalling the trial also removes the
> installed NeoSpeech voices.

If you want to uninstall the trial but leave the voices, just manually
delete all of the files installed by the trial EXCEPT for the voices.
You could hack the uninstall script but that's prone to error.