[DECtalk] FW: decTalk sapi5 installer

Fri Jul 1 09:09:01 EDT 2022

No its back up.

https://keybase.pub/datajake1999/Grossgang/

From: Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> On Behalf Of mattias
jonsson
Sent: Friday, July 1, 2022 8:55
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Subject: Re: [DECtalk] FW: decTalk sapi5 installer

That was exactly What i meen

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Ämne: Re: [DECtalk] FW: decTalk sapi5 installer

To clarify Mattias reply a bit: Jake Gross's site has been down for months.
Some members of this list figured that out shortly after he took his site
offline.

When his site is loaded, it still says:

"Important Notice

Since hosting large files impacts the survice of my hosting provider, I have
taken all content offline."

It would not surprise me at all if Jake allows his domain to expire rather
than pay for (renew) a domain which has no content.

Blake

On 7/1/2022 7:45 AM, mattias wrote:

jakes site are down

Den 2022-07-01 kl. 13:39, skrev joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
<mailto: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. 

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Cc: Blake Roberts  <mailto:BEarlRoberts at aol.com> <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
<mailto: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  <mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment at gmail.com>
<sightlesswolfentertainment at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2022 21:57
To: joshknnd1982 at gmail.com <mailto: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.

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From: joshknnd1982 at gmail.com <mailto: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
<mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment at gmail.com> > 
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2022 13:23
To: joshknnd1982 at gmail.com <mailto: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.

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From: joshknnd1982 at gmail.com <mailto: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
<mailto: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.

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From: joshknnd1982 at gmail.com <mailto:joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2022 4:50 AM
To: sightlesswolfentertainment at gmail.com
<mailto: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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