[DECtalk] decTalk 4.4 4.5 and 4.6 as sapi5?

[Mohamed Al-Hajamy]

No, not anymore. Since 2016, NOAA uses NeoSpeech Paul exclusively. Prior 
to that, they used a combination of Tom from Speechify and, I believe, a 
customized version of Harry from DECtalk. You can still hear DECtalk in 
ATIS systems in some airports, though.

On 5/28/2021 11:24 PM, Isaac wrote:
> Also, isn't dectalk still used across the country on Noaa Weather 
> Radio, I have heard it recently on several local frequencies?
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don" <Text_to_Speech at GMX.com>
> To: "DECtalk" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2021 8:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] decTalk 4.4 4.5 and 4.6 as sapi5?
>
>
>> On 5/28/2021 5:38 PM, Mohamed Al-Hajamy wrote:
>>> Yeah, he may also not necessarily be inclined to let the synth go, 
>>> if he's
>>> still making money from the Orion TI-84 Plus deal.
>>
>> Regardless, it's not COSTING him anything to hold onto it.
>> But, once the genie is out of the bottle, there's nothing
>> he can do to reclaim it!
>>
>> Microsoft hasn't released the source code for any of their MS-DOS
>> versions, any early Windows version, any Office product, etc. Even
>> Internet Explorer -- now officially "discontinued" -- hasn't been
>> released.
>>
>> The PNG image format was developed because the GIF patent holder
>> (Unisys) wasn't keen on allowing *their* technology to be used freely.
>> Despite it being an ideal format for use on the WWW, they, as
>> owners of that IP, just said "no".
>>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF>
>>
>> All of these things have some value; hence the reason YOU want to see
>> them released.  The owner of the item can decide how much it is worth
>> to *him*.  There's nothing you can do to pressure him into selling
>> it for any lesser amount (including giving it away).
>>
>> Find a way to use it clandestinely (or, under the terms of any previous
>> license that you have).  If that means you have to stick with older 
>> tools
>> that it works well with, then so be it.
>>
>> A firm I worked for produced a half million dollar product.  It used
>> a piece of software licensed for $5,000 for *each* copy.  One day,
>> they decided not to sell licenses for that version of the software
>> any longer; "You can license our NEW version, instead!"
>>
>> But, the new version would require lots of redesign on our part.
>> We couldn't continue to sell our existing product because it
>> relied on that $5,000 license -- which was not obtainable.  Sort
>> of like needing a part that was no longer being made.  Even though
>> they could "make" as many copies of the license (it's just a piece
>> of paper!) as they wanted -- they didn't want to make ANY!
>>
>> <shrug>
>>
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