[DECtalk] FW: decTalk sapi5 installer
Isaac
bigikemusic at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 16:45:16 EDT 2022
If you guys need a place to host, I can give links to my google drive as
I pay for a subscription there.
On 7/1/2022 7:52 AM, Blake Roberts via Dectalk wrote:
>
> 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> *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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