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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I have also been trying to get in touch with the license holders of decTalk but with no success. If you find anything out, please let me know. I am particularly interested in sapi5 versions of decTalk 4.41 4.51 and 4.60.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Josh</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:nikitamailings@yandex.com">Nikita</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, August 29, 2021 13:02<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[DECtalk] DECtalk TTS licensing</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello everybody.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am looking for an opportunity to license DECtalk software technology to develop a cross-platform multilingual speech synthesizer compatible with screen readers. First of all, on Windows and Android, and in the future, possibly Linux and macOS.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Unfortunately, I ran into the problem of being unable to contact the copyright holders of DECtalk.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SpeechFX, Inc. website does not work (speechfxinc.com), and I am not receiving a response to message sent to the email that was previously indicated on this site (sales@speechfxinc.com).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I tried to contact Roger Dudley personally, who is the CEO of SpeechFX, but his addresses, which I discovered in the public sources, no longer exist.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I know that there is an available software implementation of DECtalk and even its source code is publicly available, but these are all illegal versions. <span lang=RU>I want to officially license DECtalk for my non-commercial project.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=RU>I will be very grateful if someone can suggest how else I can contact the copyright holders of DECtalk.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=RU>If you have any information, but you do not want to publish it publicly, then you can write to me directly at nikitamailings@yandex.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=RU>Best regards, Nikita.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>