[DECtalk] decTalk 4.41 through 4.6 sapi5

Will Prestwich william.prestwich at gmail.com
Tue May 3 01:34:28 EDT 2022


@Don,
You are welcome to have a look at the source code and contact me personally if you want to have a look at the changes I had made to get it to compile.
Thanks
Wil

> On 3 May 2022, at 2:55 pm, Don <Text_to_Speech at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> On 5/1/2022 10:29 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
>> I have to strongly disagree, I think 4.3 sounded the best of all the software
>> versions of DECtalk I ever heard. My favorite DECtalk version was probably
>> 4.2CD but as far as I know that was never made available in software form, but
>> only as software/firmware for various hardware models.
> 
> I find it frustrating that folks make such subjective claims without explaining
> WHY it sounds better.
> 
> I realize this is often hard to put a finger on.  But, as a developer, knowing
> the criteria that folks use to make these decisions goes a long way to guiding
> development efforts.  I.e., why "waste time" on some aspect that folks don't
> consider important?
> 
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