[DECtalk] Jake Gross site
Blake Roberts
BEarlRoberts at aol.com
Fri Jul 1 09:23:04 EDT 2022
Josh,
Thank you for the URL to Jake's site which is currently being hosted on
another domain. We (other members of this list) were not previously
aware of it.
Blake
On 7/1/2022 9:09 AM, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> 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
> *To:* DECtalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [DECtalk] FW: decTalk sapi5 installer
>
> That was exactly What i meen
>
> Skickades från E-post <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986>
> för Windows
>
> *Från: *Blake Roberts via Dectalk <mailto:dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> *Skickat: *den 1 juli 2022 14:53
> *Till: *DECtalk <mailto:dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> *Kopia: *Blake Roberts <mailto:BEarlRoberts at aol.com>
> *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:
>
> 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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto:dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> *Cc:* Blake Roberts <BEarlRoberts at aol.com>
> <mailto: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
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>
> *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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