[DECtalk] decTalk access32 and other things

mattias mj at mjw.se
Sun Jun 19 10:52:23 EDT 2022


sadly there is no public beta of mac os 1 yet

Den 2022-06-19 kl. 15:55, skrev joshknnd1982 at gmail.com:
>
> I know eloquence is coming to mac OS because people who have macs and 
> are running the betas on the applevis forum told me eloquence is in 
> the latest mac OS beta. And also eloquence is running right now on my 
> iPhone with IOS16 developer beta1.
>
> *From:* Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> *On Behalf Of *mattias
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 19, 2022 8:07
> *To:* dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
> *Subject:* Re: [DECtalk] decTalk access32 and other things
>
> 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>
>         <mailto: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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