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

[joshknnd1982 at gmail.com]

And it would save Jake tons of unnecessary work, always having to update NVDA addons.

 

 

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Subject: Re: [DECtalk] It's time to bust some DECtalk myths

 

I agree with Josh in requesting that Jake create a SAPI5 version of Dectalk 4.60 if possible. He has a very valid point that future updates to NVDA could break the present add-on. Also, with SAPI we can use DECTalk outside of NVDA.

Blake

 

On 9/17/2022 4:36 PM, Josh Kennedy wrote:

could you also possibly make a sapi5 version? Because when NVDA gets updated again, at some point this add on, will eventually break. Where as a sapi5 version of this will not break at least not for a very, very long time. 

 

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On Sep 17, 2022, at 10:48, Jake Gross  <mailto:datajake at gmail.com> <datajake at gmail.com> 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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