[DECtalk] decTalk access32 and other things

[mattias]

how do you know that eloquence is comming to mac os?

Den 2022-06-19 kl. 13:55, skrev Piotr Machacz:
> Yep, Eloquence is indeed coming to Mac OS 13. The only thing it hasn't 
> appeared on so far is the new Watch OS but I suspect it's a matter of 
> optimization more than anything because the watch also got more voices.
>
> As for what you said, just because you haven't gotten a response isn't 
> yet a sign of declaring anything abandonware and it's equally unlikely 
> Apple or anyone else would make an iOS dectalk app.
>
> As a side note, Dectalk isn't the only singing voice out there. The 
> MacinTalk voices can also be made to sing. The programming process is 
> a bit different, you need to specify your pitches exclusively in hertz 
> and you don't get the vibrato effect for free but it can be done. 
> While this works om Mac OS I didn't get it to work on iOS, while some 
> embedded commands were passed through fine the one to enter the synth 
> into phoneme mode didn't work correctly. Maybe things are different 
> now, I don't know.
>
>> On 19 Jun 2022, at 13:41, mattias jonsson <mj at mjw.se> wrote:
>>
>> hope eloquence will come to mac os 13
>>
>> Den 19 juni 2022 13:28:23 skrev joshknnd1982 at gmail.com:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> First, I tried and tried getting in touch with Roger Dudley of 
>>> speech-fx-inc, with no luck. I guess that company is dead and 
>>> decTalk is abandonware now? Second have you heard that eloquence is 
>>> coming to IOS in IOS16 in the fall of the year? I am testing 
>>> developer beta1 and eloquence is working quite good on all my 
>>> devices aside from some bugs that I already reported.
>>> Also and I guess someone should suggest this on the applevis forum I 
>>> probably will and I guess it would depend on if there is source code 
>>> out there for any DecTalk software. But since it is the only synth 
>>> that can sing, a speak window should be made for IOS so people with 
>>> communication and voice issues can use decTalk to sing if they want 
>>> to. I have written to freedom scientific asking them to bring back 
>>> decTalk access32 in the jaws software but I don't know if they will. 
>>> And NVDA keeps breaking their decTalk addon making me have to edit 
>>> the manifest file to keep it working at least so far.
>>>
>>> Last, does anyone know if there a sapi5 version of decTalk 4.6? what 
>>> I consider to be the good decTalk? Nice loud volume with good speech 
>>> inflection?
>>>
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