[DECtalk] FW: decTalk sapi5 installer

Fri Jul 1 07:45:28 EDT 2022

jakes site are down

Den 2022-07-01 kl. 13:39, skrev joshknnd1982 at gmail.com:
>
> Yes I will be paying a few hundred dollars for this out of my own 
> pocket. I will be giving it away for free on this list and to anyone 
> who wants it, … and I also hope to do the same with the old willowPond 
> tts, soon. That is, to have them modify Jake’s IBM tts sapi5 interface 
> to load the old softVoice dlls. forever. I expect nothing in return 
> and I will also try to find a way to put the sapi5 decTalk 4.41, 4.45 
> and 4.60, on the internet archive’s vintage software section. And I 
> will definitely be giving it to Jake Gross for his website.
>
> *From:* Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> *On Behalf Of 
> *Blake Roberts via Dectalk
> *Sent:* Friday, July 1, 2022 3:57
> *To:* DECtalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> *Cc:* Blake Roberts <BEarlRoberts at aol.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [DECtalk] FW: decTalk sapi5 installer
>
> Josh,
>
> Since you "hired" a company or group of people to create a SAPI5 of 
> DECTalk, I am thinking you might have paid hundreds or thousands of 
> dollars. People/contracting companies are not hired for free. Will you 
> be offering the DECTalk SAPI5 to the DECTalk list, or is the installer 
> for your own private use only? If you plan to distribute the SAPI5 to 
> other DECTalk enthusiasts, will you charge individuals a set fee for 
> the installer?
>
> Blake
>
> On 6/30/2022 10:39 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>
>     <mailto: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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