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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Below is the message I got back.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Unfortunately we will not be able to implement speech rate and pitch changes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>However, there may be a workaround:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>An advanced install wizard. It will automatically configure each time it’s run, and each time it will retain settings from the previous run which were not changed. The install wizard will handle rate and pitch changes. We can also create an optional script that users can run to nudge DecTalk’s rate and pitch.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We will also need the documentation for the decTalk dll files, since we can’t link to them without the correct function names, parameters and calling conventions<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>