[DECtalk] FW: decTalk sapi5 installer

[Karen Lewellen]

well, apple could use one as well.



On Fri, 1 Jul 2022, Brandon Misch wrote:

> now all we need is a version for android at some point if possible
>
> On 6/30/22, Isaac <bigikemusic at gmail.com> 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.
>>>
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>>> 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.
>>>
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>>> 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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