[DECtalk] decTalk sapi5

Don Text_to_Speech at GMX.com
Fri Jun 24 21:55:12 EDT 2022


On 6/24/2022 12:39 PM, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com wrote:
> Below is the message I got back.
>
> Unfortunately we will not be able to implement speech rate and pitch
> changes.

Why not?  Is this to avoid out-of-band control message parsing?
(if so, how will those messages be handled soas not to taint
execution -- i.e., they must all LOOK, to the caller, as if they
succeeded)

> 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.

So, constant rate and pitch for each "session"?  Goodbye singing and any
prosody imbued by the application.



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