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

[Brandon Misch]

it would be really nice if someone developed it for android. it sounds
really good in windows.

On 9/17/22, Paul balfe <brllboy at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
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