[DECtalk] DECTalk add-on for NVDA

Blake Roberts BEarlRoberts at aol.com
Fri Jul 1 04:09:46 EDT 2022


Hi Isaac,

The only web site I know of where the DECTalk NVDA installer can be 
downloaded is "Jeff's NVDA Add-on Repository".

https://jeff.tdrealms.com/NVDA.md


Blake



On 6/30/2022 11:23 PM, Isaac wrote:
>
> Hi, where is the addon for nvda to use the non sapi 5 dectalk?
>
> On 6/30/2022 9:39 PM, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got the following message from the people I have hired to make the 
>> much older good-sounding decTalk 4.41, 4.51 and 4.60 dlls into a 
>> sapi5 version. I recommended they just modify Jake Gross’s IBM-tts 
>> sapi5 interface to accept, load, and use decTalk commands rather than 
>> eci.dll and IBM-tts and eloquence commands. And if this works I may 
>> be able to get the old WillowPond tts dlls as sapi5 also.
>>
>> *From:* Rory MICHIE <sightlesswolfentertainment at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2022 21:57
>> *To:* joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
>> *Subject:* RE: decTalk sapi5 installer
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is certainly a possibility. We will look into this, as it seems 
>> the building blocks have already been built.
>>
>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for 
>> Windows
>>
>> *From: *joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
>> *Sent: *Friday, July 1, 2022 8:56 AM
>> *To: *Rory MICHIE <mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment at gmail.com>
>> *Subject: *RE: decTalk sapi5 installer
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> It may take you far less time if you just modify Jake’s IBM-tts sapi5 
>> interface to load and use decTalk dlls and commands? The github site 
>> and all its source code and his simple installer and directions is at:
>>
>> https://github.com/datajake1999/SAPI5IBMTTS
>>
>> and to make things easier and less work for you guys, just follow and 
>> implement Jake’s directions for installation and uninstallation but 
>> just change them slightly for decTalk dlls. Would that help you guys 
>> out? And it would also let users adjust speech rate, pitch and other 
>> sapi5 characteristics. If modifying Jake’s scripts is much easier for 
>> you guys then just do that then. Lots less work for you.
>>
>> *From:* Rory MICHIE <sightlesswolfentertainment at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Friday, June 24, 2022 13:23
>> *To:* joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
>> *Subject:* RE: decTalk sapi5 installer
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Unfortunately we will not be able to implement speech rate and pitch 
>> changes.
>>
>> However, there may be a workaround:
>>
>> An advanced install wizard. It will automatically configure each time 
>> it’s run, and each time it will retain settings from the previous run 
>> which were not changed. The install wizard will handle rate and pitch 
>> changes. We can also create an optional script that users can run to 
>> nudge DecTalk’s rate and pitch
>>
>> We will also need the documentation for the decTalk dll files, since 
>> we can’t link to them without the correct function names, parameters 
>> and calling conventions
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sightless Wolf Entertainment team.
>>
>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for 
>> Windows
>>
>> *From: *joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
>> *Sent: *Friday, June 24, 2022 11:34 PM
>> *To: *Rory MICHIE <mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment at gmail.com>
>> *Subject: *RE: decTalk sapi5 installer
>>
>> $500 sounds good that is what I paid about 16 years ago for another 
>> text-to-speech project I just forgot about that one up until now.
>>
>> Josh Kennedy
>>
>> *From:* Rory MICHIE <sightlesswolfentertainment at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 22, 2022 18:46
>> *To:* joshknnd1982 at gmailcom <mailto:joshknnd1982 at gmail.com>
>> *Subject:* RE: decTalk sapi5 installer
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thank you for contacting us regarding your freelance work
>>
>> Please send the team the DLL files and we will proceed with research 
>> and programming.
>>
>> Note: the programming might take up to a month, depending on 
>> potential complexities. We will contact you regarding any further 
>> information.
>>
>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for 
>> Windows
>>
>> *From: *joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
>> *Sent: *Thursday, June 23, 2022 4:50 AM
>> *To: *sightlesswolfentertainment at gmail.com
>> *Subject: *decTalk sapi5 installer
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If I send you three decTalk dll files, could you make a sapi5 
>> interface and package them into an installer that would let the user 
>> choose their favorite decTalk version during or before installation? 
>> Also with ability for all punctuation just to be sent directly to the 
>> synthesizer, ability to choose any decTalk voice in other words 
>> expose all decTalk voices to sapi5, ability to adjust pitch volume 
>> and speech rate according to the range of whatever decTalk’s 
>> parameters are. User would have to uninstall decTalk and run 
>> installer again to install another version of decTalk
>>
>>
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