[DECtalk] It's time to bust some DECtalk myths

[Paul balfe]

Blake,

How do you make the dectalk sing using the nvda addon cuz when I begin 
to read the document in notepad it just says the code?

Thank you.

On 9/17/2022 11:40 AM, Blake Roberts via Dectalk wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Jake: That is amazing that you were able to acquire DECTalk source 
> code. Your message below made my day!
>
>
> Here are two additional pieces of information I discovered from using 
> Jake's new multilingual DECTalk 4.6 NVDA add-on which might interest 
> some other list members.
>
> 1. It works with NVDA version 2022.2.2.
>
> 2. It can sing! I could never get an old DECTalk NVDA add-on which 
> claimed to have singing functionality to work. When I loaded Jake's 
> new DECTalk NVDA add-on and a song text file, doing a say all command 
> caused it to sing the entire song. Unlike speak windows, pressing the 
> control key stops singing immediately. For me, a dream has become reality!
>
>
> I am so happy right now that I don't mind this DECTalk list being 
> called "error in phoneme" when I encounter a message from this list in 
> my inbox. I understand that happens because the list name is between 
> brackets in message subject line.
>
> Blake
>
>
>
> On 9/17/2022 10:48 AM, Jake Gross wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> For the past couple days, I have been having a field day with some 
>> DECtalk source code I got from a former Fonix Employee. The versions 
>> I have sources for are 4.60, 4.60 R008, 4.62, 4.63, 4.64, and 5.0, as 
>> well as Internal development tools that were used to develop various 
>> parts of the engine such as the phoneme and rule tables.
>>
>> Version 4.60 R008 Is Especially Interesting, as this Is literally the 
>> version that shipped with Window Eyes. The codebase for this 
>> particular version Is based on code from late 1999, so this was the 
>> 4.60 era. Modifications started on June 13 of 2003 at 8:08 PDT and It 
>> was built at 9:12 PDT on the same day, and the only things that were 
>> modified were some slight tweaks to the audio playback code and the 
>> vocal tract model.
>>
>> The build log In the archive Is the build log for the DLL that 
>> shipped with window eyes, as the timestamp of that DLL Is 6/13/03 
>> 9:12:21 and the build log timestamp Is 6/13/03 9:12:20.
>>
>> 4.62 sounds like 4.61 for the most part, however It has an 
>> Interesting bug with a particular word. Also, type “denissklatt” In 
>> any version of DECtalk for a little easter egg.
>>
>> Version 4.63 uses HLSyn, so It doesn’t sound like classic DECtalk at all.
>>
>> I also put together a multilingual NVDA addon for DECtalk 4.6 
>> <https://keybase.pub/datajake1999/Grossgang/tts/synthesizers%20for%20nvda/dectalk/DECtalk%204.6.0%20Multilingual.nvda-addon>. 
>> The Included DLLs were built with Visual Studio 2005 and I disabled 
>> the license checks In the code.
>>
>> I have uploaded all of this stuff to my keybase 
>> <https://keybase.pub/datajake1999/Grossgang/tts/DECtalk%20source%20code%20archive/>, 
>> and the person I was In correspondence with said It was OK If I did so.
>>
>> If anyone wants anything built, feel free to let me know.
>>
>> Have fun,
>>
>> Jake
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Dectalk mailing list
>> Dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>> https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk
>
> _______________________________________________
> Dectalk mailing list
> Dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
> https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://bluegrasspals.com/pipermail/dectalk/attachments/20220917/2367b347/attachment.htm>