[DECtalk] using decTalk speak windows with screen readers

[Tony Morales]

This appears to be an Alpha DEC executable. Windows NT 4.0 did run on Alpha DEC hardware.

It would be fantastic to be able to emulate the appropriate hardware so as to run this demo, given the software version of DECtalk in question.

Thanks,

Tony



> On Aug 12, 2022, at 1:32 PM, Jayson Smith <jaybird at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto:joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here is the link for decTalk 4.2
>> 
>>  
>> https://archive.org/details/ALPHADT_ZIP <https://archive.org/details/ALPHADT_ZIP>
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> From: Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> <mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> On Behalf Of Aksel Leo Christoffersen
>> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2022 14:10
>> To: 'DECtalk' <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> <mailto: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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