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

[Blake Roberts]

Ulysses and all,

It is also not clear to me what DECTalk is saying when you type dennis 
klat as one word, dennisklatt. To me, the two final words sound like 
"chow show", but I cannot understand what else it is trying to say in 
that easter egg. I tried changing DECtalk voices but the easter egg is 
still a mystery.

Blake


On 9/17/2022 8:34 PM, Ulysses Harmony Garcia wrote:
>
> Hi! This is all great! I also found that setting the option to send 
> punctuation to synthesiser to always will make this work as well!
>
> I typed in that name, 'dennisklatt', but unfortunately my hearing 
> isn't what it once was, so I cannot tell what it is saying. I'd 
> appreciate any clarification on this! The closest thing I could hear 
> was, 'Sue in much our shore.'
>
>
> -Ulysses
>
> On 9/17/2022 8:40 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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