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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was browsing through the online archive of the DECtalk mailing list, and I found this mail from 2011:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://jaybird.no-ip.info/pipermail/dectalk/2011-August/002846.html">http://jaybird.no-ip.info/pipermail/dectalk/2011-August/002846.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It contains two samples, which, as I understand it, was samples of the progress of a work to restore the classic DECtalk sound, from the DECtalk 5.0 template which uses HLsyn, and then make it available for SAPI, yet the only DECtalk for SAPI versions, that I know of, is the file containing a DECtalk 4.61 application, which, when installed, also installs a DECtalk 4.64 for SAPI5, and then DECtalk 5.0, that Jake Gross compiled in 2020. I wasn’t into DECtalk in 2011, so I don’t know much about the development of DECtalk in that period, but I thought it was not being developed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So, what happended? Did the version from the second sample ever get released? Have I seriously misunderstood something?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kind regards:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Aksel Christoffersen<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>