[DECtalk] using decTalk speak windows with screen readers

Jayson Smith jaybird at bluegrasspals.com
Fri Aug 12 16:32:02 EDT 2022


Hi,

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this executable is not meant to be 
run on a PC. It won't work on my system either.

Jayson

On 8/12/2022 3:07 PM, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> Here is the link for decTalk 4.2
>
> https://archive.org/details/ALPHADT_ZIP
>
> *From:* Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> *On Behalf Of 
> *Aksel Leo Christoffersen
> *Sent:* Friday, August 12, 2022 14:10
> *To:* 'DECtalk' <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [DECtalk] using decTalk speak windows with screen readers
>
> Hello Josh,
>
> First of, would you mind sending a link to that DECtalk 4.2 speak 
> window, because I’m quite sure that version doesn’t exist as software.
>
> Secondly, you can use the touch-cursor in JAWS to use the various 
> buttons in the speak windows, but I would recoment just entering the 
> appropriate voice commands to change the parameter you  want,, for 
> example change to Betty by using the command [:nb]. The touch-cursor 
> is very useful though, when you want to play the text you’ve entered. 
> When you activate the touch-cursor, and use the right arrow to go 
> through the objects in the window, you will at some point come across 
> several unlabelled buttons, right after an object, where JAWS just 
> says speaking rate. The first three buttons are play, pause and stop, 
> and I think the next nine are for the voices, but I can’t remember 
> which order they’re in.
>
> Kind regards:
>
> Aksel Christoffersen
>
>
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