[DECtalk] decTalk on IOS with TestFlite beta app?

[Josh Kennedy]

yes, just like vinyl records are now coming back, and you don't see the original inventor of the record suing people over its youth in 2022. So again, I think it's highly unlikely, and I think that we are quite safe using old. dectalk if we choose to. I use it, but I also use my Amazon speakers and new and modern text speech as well. I like a combination a little of everything. 

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> On Nov 16, 2022, at 01:42, Don <Text_to_Speech at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11/15/2022 9:27 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, jake mcmahanCharles Mcmahan wrote:
>>>     Normally I don't say much on these type things but I think this whole thing is quite unnecessary.  We all use products and technology in our own way, think in our own way, that's what makes the world what it is.  While I personally use dectalk for some things, eloquence for others, I don't think it's a bad idea for an old product to be invested in if proper permission is given.  Last I heard, Jake Gross did get the source from someone who actually worked at the company, so really the legal thing is complicated and I wouldn't do well exploring that one.  Point is though, we're all people who function in different ways and have our own ideas. Lots of this stuff is very informative and it's interesting to see what others think but I don't think it's necessary for anyone to be hostile or get worked up when there really is no need for it.
>>> 
>> Well said, which is why I spoke to the disrespectful comparison  of how I *choose* to use equipment to an 8-track machine.
>>  What value is there in such a comment?
> 
> Value?  It points out that the technology is OLD and no longer being
> developed or supported, IN ANY WAY.  Just like DECtalk is old and
> unsupported.  There are no active 8-track manufacturers.  There is
> no active DECtalk manufacturer.
> 
> As long as your 8 track (DECtalk) continues working AND you are
> happy with its performance and not desirous of any features
> available from newer technology, you can continue to use it.
> 
> Just like an 8 track user can continue to listen to his collection
> of 8-track titles -- as long as they (and the player) continue
> to work.  But, if he wants 10 hours of music on a cartridge,
> he's SoL -- ain't gonna happen with that technology.  Or, if
> he wants higher fidelity reproduction *or* error free copying.
> 
> And, there's no one he can talk to about getting those enhancements
> made ... because there's no one asserting ownership of the product.
> 
>> Most of my remarks were not  addressed to don specifically, but to the thread generally, which I freely owned up not reading.
>> Why He chose to make it personal just because I did not write in context is entirely on him.
> 
> You chose to reply to *my* post -- not, for example, to josh's post in which
> claims of "poor blind people on social security" was voiced.  Along with the
> passive-aggressive comments regarding my being "an authority on all aspects of
> the human condition".
> 
> Or, am I mistaken?  Was that intended as a COMPLIMENT??
> 
>> A shared label does not a shared experience make uniformly, that is part of what makes us human.
>> Karen
>>  who is done commenting at all now.
> 
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