[DECtalk] FW: decTalk sapi5 installer

[Isaac]

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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>
> *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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> *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.
>
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> *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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