[DECtalk] Report of a successful use of dectalk with graphical Linux.
Karen Lewellen
klewellen at shellworld.net
Tue Feb 21 23:17:27 EST 2023
Hi members,
Sharing this post from the blind Linux users group. Hope it generates a
smile.
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:59:35 -0500
From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Subject: What a find! DECTalk!
I'm happy to be in the fediverse right now. Looking through my timeline, I just
found a link to a Github repository that has DECTalk source code, apparently
released by some of the original DECTalk developers.
https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk
The LICENSE file still has scary words like "proprietary" and "confidential"
and "all rights reserved," but the source builds and works. I have it working
in speech-dispatcher with Orca as I write this.
Note that this is the DECTalk software version 4.x, the one that sounds just
like the DECTalk Express from the 1990's, so anyone who needs hardware speech
should feel right at home with this. No, this is not the 5.x DECTalk that
really sounds like crap. Have fun and enjoy, and I do hope they fix this
license soon. It would be good to have another truly free speech synthesizer to
play with, and this is definitely a huge step in that direction.
~ Kyle
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