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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>Hi Blake,</p><p class=MsoNormal>As far as I know, DECtalk should, actually be able to run on Windows11.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Although if anyone wants to use the DECtalk USB with Windows11 they’ll be forced to use JAWS or possibly Super Nova, since the NVDA add-on for the DECtalk USB hasn’t been maintained in ages.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I was thinking of getting one of those mainly to see what parameters it has.</p><p class=MsoNormal>That might be fun.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Glad you enjoyed the fight sounds, although now that I’m getting back into DECtalk programming, perhaps pitch adjustments is something I’ll have to play with.</p><p class=MsoNormal>What got you interested in DECtalk programming anyway?</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:dectalk-request@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk-request@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, April 30, 2022 4:03 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Dectalk Digest, Vol 78, Issue 2</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Send Dectalk mailing list submissions to</p><p class=MsoNormal> dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit</p><p class=MsoNormal> https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</p><p class=MsoNormal>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to</p><p class=MsoNormal> dectalk-request@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You can reach the person managing the list at</p><p class=MsoNormal> dectalk-owner@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific</p><p class=MsoNormal>than "Re: Contents of Dectalk digest..."</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Today's Topics:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> 1. Re: Introduction (Blake Roberts)</p><p class=MsoNormal> 2. Re: Introduction (Brandon Misch)</p><p class=MsoNormal> 3. decTalk 4.41 through 4.6 sapi5 (joshknnd1982@gmail.com)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message: 1</p><p class=MsoNormal>Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 13:00:26 -0400</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: Blake Roberts <BEarlRoberts@aol.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>To: DECtalk <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Introduction</p><p class=MsoNormal>Message-ID: <d4270224-cc34-9550-9347-47ee76b016a7@aol.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Keith,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Welcome to the Dectalk list! I think the audio file which you shared was </p><p class=MsoNormal>creative, especially the fight sounds generated by DECtalk. Is Perfect </p><p class=MsoNormal>Paul's claim in your audio file that the Speak windows won't work on </p><p class=MsoNormal>Windows 11 a true statement? I am currently running Windows 10 on a </p><p class=MsoNormal>computer which is not compatible with Windows 11.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Blake</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 4/30/2022 4:52 AM, Keith Hinton wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hi, folks!</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> I hope that you all are doing well.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> I?ve recently just started getting back into programming with the </p><p class=MsoNormal>> DECtalk synthesizer, so thought I?d see who?s actually on this thing.? </p><p class=MsoNormal>> I got to the sign-up link from The Flame Of Hope website, so thought </p><p class=MsoNormal>> I?d subscribe and see who is actually around on here.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> I?m a huge fan of collaboration personaly, so if anyone wants to? have </p><p class=MsoNormal>> me be part of smoething, just feel free to let me know.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> At the moment, my programming knowledge as far as DECtalk programming </p><p class=MsoNormal>> is concerned, is actually rather minimal. However, I certainly do </p><p class=MsoNormal>> enjoy DECtalk, although there was a period of time where I totally </p><p class=MsoNormal>> forgot about the technology.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> My earliest memory of a DECtalk, although at the time I was too young </p><p class=MsoNormal>> to know what it was called, was a computer running JAWS for Dos, and </p><p class=MsoNormal>> it was hooked up to a DECtalk Express. I seem to recall that the </p><p class=MsoNormal>> synthesizer could sing back then.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> I only found out that it was called the DECtalk Express one day when I </p><p class=MsoNormal>> got curious and actually shut the synthesizer off, then turned it back on.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> I even quite a number of years ago now, submitted a file to the </p><p class=MsoNormal>> DECtalk Archive, called Access 32 destruction, though I never put </p><p class=MsoNormal>> myself out their as an artist at the time.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> I have certainly been inspired and attracted to DECtalk programming in </p><p class=MsoNormal>> general, in no small part because of folks such as Patrick Perdue, </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Rachel Keyte, Snoopi Botten, and even by the programming of folks </p><p class=MsoNormal>> who?s names I just can?t recall at the moment.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> I started getting back into DECtalk a few years back in general, when </p><p class=MsoNormal>> I discovered that someone had invented an add-on so that the Access32 </p><p class=MsoNormal>> voices could be used with NVDA. Although, that DECtalk doesn?t respond </p><p class=MsoNormal>> to commands. So, I actually ended up grabbing a speak window </p><p class=MsoNormal>> application version not so long ago, and I?ve been creating a few </p><p class=MsoNormal>> things recently.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> One thing that I?d be really interested in doing is learning how to </p><p class=MsoNormal>> make a convincing fight with the DECtalk voices.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> At the moment, my latest attempt for a fight with DECtalk is actually, </p><p class=MsoNormal>> well, quite horrible.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> At the time of it?s construction earlier this year, , I was using the </p><p class=MsoNormal>> NVDA DECtalk add-on, and I was simply doing audio production edits to </p><p class=MsoNormal>> my fight material, admittedly to create an mp3 audio out of this </p><p class=MsoNormal>> thing. I hadn?t yet remembered about the Speak window programs or </p><p class=MsoNormal>> anything like that.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> I might end up creating a new fight file once I have something that is </p><p class=MsoNormal>> far more convincing as far as Paul and Harry hitting each other, and </p><p class=MsoNormal>> making fight noises or something like it.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> I also don?t currently have any body hit sound effects on hand, so I?m </p><p class=MsoNormal>> sure that would also be more convincing, but what I?m super interested </p><p class=MsoNormal>> in is how in the world to create something so that the listener </p><p class=MsoNormal>> actually thinks that Paul and Harry are really going at it.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Here is an audio file version of what I stitched together using the </p><p class=MsoNormal>> DECtalk add-on for NVDA at the time, and my audio production skills. I </p><p class=MsoNormal>> don?t think I actually saved the actual text though, so a new file </p><p class=MsoNormal>> would ultimately have to be constructed.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> I tried to make fight noises with what I had at the time, and I don?t </p><p class=MsoNormal>> feel that this is convincing at all. But, here it is.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/m6yl65mvraks7rs/Paul%27s%20Defeat%20In%20Progress%20Audio%20Thing.mp3?dl=1</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Any suggestions come to mind from anyone who is more experienced with </p><p class=MsoNormal>> DECtalk programming on how to make a more convincing fight than what I </p><p class=MsoNormal>> came up with at the time? Even the noises I made for Paul and Harry </p><p class=MsoNormal>> being in pain were rather cringe worthy, admittedly, but well, at the </p><p class=MsoNormal>> time that I did this earlier this year, ?I had totally forgotten about </p><p class=MsoNormal>> the Speak window program. And I am only just now, starting to get back </p><p class=MsoNormal>> into these fun parameters.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Enjoy my fight attempt, as bad as I feel that was. I?m sure someone </p><p class=MsoNormal>> around here could come up with far more convincing fight noises pretty </p><p class=MsoNormal>> easily.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> _______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Dectalk mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>> https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</p><p class=MsoNormal>-------------- next part --------------</p><p class=MsoNormal>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</p><p class=MsoNormal>URL: <https://bluegrasspals.com/pipermail/dectalk/attachments/20220430/f11b9506/attachment-0001.html></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message: 2</p><p class=MsoNormal>Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 13:35:33 -0400</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: Brandon Misch <bmisch2002@gmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>To: DECtalk <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Introduction</p><p class=MsoNormal>Message-ID:</p><p class=MsoNormal> <CAL2p2KkS2qdqP3QbdR4pJL75vKoB1Cjiwr0HwHYUkViaYzKUeA@mail.gmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think he could also be referring to the synthesizer itself not</p><p class=MsoNormal>working well with some screen readers in windows 11. speaking of</p><p class=MsoNormal>screen readers, has anyone developed an add-on for the latest</p><p class=MsoNormal>NonVisual desktop access? Something that will work with the newest</p><p class=MsoNormal>builds? The version that worked with 2021.3 doesn't work with any</p><p class=MsoNormal>other snapshot releases. thanks for checking.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 4/30/22, Blake Roberts via Dectalk <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hi Keith,</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Welcome to the Dectalk list! I think the audio file which you shared was</p><p class=MsoNormal>> creative, especially the fight sounds generated by DECtalk. Is Perfect</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Paul's claim in your audio file that the Speak windows won't work on</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Windows 11 a true statement? I am currently running Windows 10 on a</p><p class=MsoNormal>> computer which is not compatible with Windows 11.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Blake</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> On 4/30/2022 4:52 AM, Keith Hinton wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Hi, folks!</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I hope that you all are doing well.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I?ve recently just started getting back into programming with the</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> DECtalk synthesizer, so thought I?d see who?s actually on this thing.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I got to the sign-up link from The Flame Of Hope website, so thought</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I?d subscribe and see who is actually around on here.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I?m a huge fan of collaboration personaly, so if anyone wants to? have</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> me be part of smoething, just feel free to let me know.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> At the moment, my programming knowledge as far as DECtalk programming</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> is concerned, is actually rather minimal. However, I certainly do</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> enjoy DECtalk, although there was a period of time where I totally</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> forgot about the technology.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> My earliest memory of a DECtalk, although at the time I was too young</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> to know what it was called, was a computer running JAWS for Dos, and</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> it was hooked up to a DECtalk Express. I seem to recall that the</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> synthesizer could sing back then.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I only found out that it was called the DECtalk Express one day when I</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> got curious and actually shut the synthesizer off, then turned it back</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> on.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I even quite a number of years ago now, submitted a file to the</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> DECtalk Archive, called Access 32 destruction, though I never put</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> myself out their as an artist at the time.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I have certainly been inspired and attracted to DECtalk programming in</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> general, in no small part because of folks such as Patrick Perdue,</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Rachel Keyte, Snoopi Botten, and even by the programming of folks</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> who?s names I just can?t recall at the moment.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I started getting back into DECtalk a few years back in general, when</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I discovered that someone had invented an add-on so that the Access32</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> voices could be used with NVDA. Although, that DECtalk doesn?t respond</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> to commands. So, I actually ended up grabbing a speak window</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> application version not so long ago, and I?ve been creating a few</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> things recently.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> One thing that I?d be really interested in doing is learning how to</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> make a convincing fight with the DECtalk voices.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> At the moment, my latest attempt for a fight with DECtalk is actually,</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> well, quite horrible.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> At the time of it?s construction earlier this year, , I was using the</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> NVDA DECtalk add-on, and I was simply doing audio production edits to</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> my fight material, admittedly to create an mp3 audio out of this</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> thing. I hadn?t yet remembered about the Speak window programs or</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> anything like that.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I might end up creating a new fight file once I have something that is</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> far more convincing as far as Paul and Harry hitting each other, and</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> making fight noises or something like it.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I also don?t currently have any body hit sound effects on hand, so I?m</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> sure that would also be more convincing, but what I?m super interested</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> in is how in the world to create something so that the listener</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> actually thinks that Paul and Harry are really going at it.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Here is an audio file version of what I stitched together using the</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> DECtalk add-on for NVDA at the time, and my audio production skills. I</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> don?t think I actually saved the actual text though, so a new file</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> would ultimately have to be constructed.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I tried to make fight noises with what I had at the time, and I don?t</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> feel that this is convincing at all. But, here it is.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/m6yl65mvraks7rs/Paul%27s%20Defeat%20In%20Progress%20Audio%20Thing.mp3?dl=1</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Any suggestions come to mind from anyone who is more experienced with</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> DECtalk programming on how to make a more convincing fight than what I</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> came up with at the time? Even the noises I made for Paul and Harry</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> being in pain were rather cringe worthy, admittedly, but well, at the</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> time that I did this earlier this year, ?I had totally forgotten about</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> the Speak window program. And I am only just now, starting to get back</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> into these fun parameters.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Enjoy my fight attempt, as bad as I feel that was. I?m sure someone</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> around here could come up with far more convincing fight noises pretty</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> easily.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> _______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Dectalk mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message: 3</p><p class=MsoNormal>Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 19:03:17 -0400</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: <joshknnd1982@gmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>To: "'DECtalk'" <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: [DECtalk] decTalk 4.41 through 4.6 sapi5</p><p class=MsoNormal>Message-ID: <008301d85ce6$7b09c160$711d4420$@gmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Instead of making NVDA addons for decTalk, perhaps a sapi5 interface could be made by someone then it would work with any screen reader you wanted to use it with.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From: Dectalk <dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com> On Behalf Of Keith Hinton</p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2022 04:52</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: [DECtalk] Introduction</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi, folks!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope that you all are doing well.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I?ve recently just started getting back into programming with the DECtalk synthesizer, so thought I?d see who?s actually on this thing. I got to the sign-up link from The Flame Of Hope website, so thought I?d subscribe and see who is actually around on here.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I?m a huge fan of collaboration personaly, so if anyone wants to have me be part of smoething, just feel free to let me know.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>At the moment, my programming knowledge as far as DECtalk programming is concerned, is actually rather minimal. However, I certainly do enjoy DECtalk, although there was a period of time where I totally forgot about the technology.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My earliest memory of a DECtalk, although at the time I was too young to know what it was called, was a computer running JAWS for Dos, and it was hooked up to a DECtalk Express. I seem to recall that the synthesizer could sing back then.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I only found out that it was called the DECtalk Express one day when I got curious and actually shut the synthesizer off, then turned it back on.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I even quite a number of years ago now, submitted a file to the DECtalk Archive, called Access 32 destruction, though I never put myself out their as an artist at the time.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have certainly been inspired and attracted to DECtalk programming in general, in no small part because of folks such as Patrick Perdue, Rachel Keyte, Snoopi Botten, and even by the programming of folks who?s names I just can?t recall at the moment.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I started getting back into DECtalk a few years back in general, when I discovered that someone had invented an add-on so that the Access32 voices could be used with NVDA. Although, that DECtalk doesn?t respond to commands. So, I actually ended up grabbing a speak window application version not so long ago, and I?ve been creating a few things recently.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>One thing that I?d be really interested in doing is learning how to make a convincing fight with the DECtalk voices.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>At the moment, my latest attempt for a fight with DECtalk is actually, well, quite horrible.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>At the time of it?s construction earlier this year, , I was using the NVDA DECtalk add-on, and I was simply doing audio production edits to my fight material, admittedly to create an mp3 audio out of this thing. I hadn?t yet remembered about the Speak window programs or anything like that.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I might end up creating a new fight file once I have something that is far more convincing as far as Paul and Harry hitting each other, and making fight noises or something like it.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I also don?t currently have any body hit sound effects on hand, so I?m sure that would also be more convincing, but what I?m super interested in is how in the world to create something so that the listener actually thinks that Paul and Harry are really going at it.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here is an audio file version of what I stitched together using the DECtalk add-on for NVDA at the time, and my audio production skills. I don?t think I actually saved the actual text though, so a new file would ultimately have to be constructed.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I tried to make fight noises with what I had at the time, and I don?t feel that this is convincing at all. But, here it is.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>https://www.dropbox.com/s/m6yl65mvraks7rs/Paul%27s%20Defeat%20In%20Progress%20Audio%20Thing.mp3?dl=1</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any suggestions come to mind from anyone who is more experienced with DECtalk programming on how to make a more convincing fight than what I came up with at the time? Even the noises I made for Paul and Harry being in pain were rather cringe worthy, admittedly, but well, at the time that I did this earlier this year, I had totally forgotten about the Speak window program. And I am only just now, starting to get back into these fun parameters.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Enjoy my fight attempt, as bad as I feel that was. 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