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<p class="MsoNormal">That was exactly What i meen</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>Från: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">Blake Roberts via Dectalk</a><br>
<b>Skickat: </b>den 1 juli 2022 14:53<br>
<b>Till: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk</a><br>
<b>Kopia: </b><a href="mailto:BEarlRoberts@aol.com">Blake Roberts</a><br>
<b>Ämne: </b>Re: [DECtalk] FW: decTalk sapi5 installer</p>
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<p>To clarify Mattias reply a bit: Jake Gross's site has been down for months. Some members of this list figured that out shortly after he took his site offline.</p>
<p>When his site is loaded, it still says:</p>
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<p>"Important Notice<br>
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Since hosting large files impacts the survice of my hosting provider, I have taken all content offline."</p>
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<p>It would not surprise me at all if Jake allows his domain to expire rather than pay for (renew) a domain which has no content.</p>
<p>Blake</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/1/2022 7:45 AM, mattias wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes I will be paying a few hundred dollars for this out of my own pocket. I will be giving it away for free on this list and to anyone who wants it, … and I also hope to do the same with the old willowPond tts, soon. That is, to have them
modify Jake’s IBM tts sapi5 interface to load the old softVoice dlls. forever. I expect nothing in return and I will also try to find a way to put the sapi5 decTalk 4.41, 4.45 and 4.60, on the internet archive’s vintage software section. And I will definitely
be giving it to Jake Gross for his website. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Dectalk <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com" moz-do-not-send="true">
<dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com></a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Blake Roberts via Dectalk<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 1, 2022 3:57<br>
<b>To:</b> DECtalk <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" moz-do-not-send="true">
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<b>Cc:</b> Blake Roberts <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:BEarlRoberts@aol.com" moz-do-not-send="true">
<BEarlRoberts@aol.com></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DECtalk] FW: decTalk sapi5 installer</p>
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<p>Josh,</p>
<p>Since you "hired" a company or group of people to create a SAPI5 of DECTalk, I am thinking you might have paid hundreds or thousands of dollars. People/contracting companies are not hired for free. Will you be offering the DECTalk SAPI5 to the DECTalk list,
or is the installer for your own private use only? If you plan to distribute the SAPI5 to other DECTalk enthusiasts, will you charge individuals a set fee for the installer?</p>
<p>Blake</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 6/30/2022 10:39 PM, <a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I got the following message from the people I have hired to make the much older good-sounding decTalk 4.41, 4.51 and 4.60 dlls into a sapi5 version. I recommended they just modify Jake Gross’s IBM-tts sapi5 interface to accept, load, and
use decTalk commands rather than eci.dll and IBM-tts and eloquence commands. And if this works I may be able to get the old WillowPond tts dlls as sapi5 also.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Rory MICHIE <a href="mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">
<sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com></a> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 30, 2022 21:57<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">
joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: decTalk sapi5 installer</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is certainly a possibility. We will look into this, as it seems the building blocks have already been built.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Friday, July 1, 2022 8:56 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">Rory MICHIE</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>RE: decTalk sapi5 installer</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It may take you far less time if you just modify Jake’s IBM-tts sapi5 interface to load and use decTalk dlls and commands? The github site and all its source code and his simple installer and directions is at:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://github.com/datajake1999/SAPI5IBMTTS" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/datajake1999/SAPI5IBMTTS</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and to make things easier and less work for you guys, just follow and implement Jake’s directions for installation and uninstallation but just change them slightly for decTalk dlls. Would that help you guys out? And it would also let users
adjust speech rate, pitch and other sapi5 characteristics. If modifying Jake’s scripts is much easier for you guys then just do that then. Lots less work for you.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Rory MICHIE <<a href="mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 24, 2022 13:23<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">
joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: decTalk sapi5 installer</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately we will not be able to implement speech rate and pitch changes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, there may be a workaround:</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</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</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sightless Wolf Entertainment team.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Friday, June 24, 2022 11:34 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">Rory MICHIE</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>RE: decTalk sapi5 installer</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">$500 sounds good that is what I paid about 16 years ago for another text-to-speech project I just forgot about that one up until now.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Josh Kennedy</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Rory MICHIE <<a href="mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 22, 2022 18:46<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">joshknnd1982@gmailcom</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: decTalk sapi5 installer</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for contacting us regarding your freelance work</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please send the team the DLL files and we will proceed with research and programming.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Note: the programming might take up to a month, depending on potential complexities. We will contact you regarding any further information.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, June 23, 2022 4:50 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>decTalk sapi5 installer</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If I send you three decTalk dll files, could you make a sapi5 interface and package them into an installer that would let the user choose their favorite decTalk version during or before installation? Also with ability for all punctuation
just to be sent directly to the synthesizer, ability to choose any decTalk voice in other words expose all decTalk voices to sapi5, ability to adjust pitch volume and speech rate according to the range of whatever decTalk’s parameters are. User would have
to uninstall decTalk and run installer again to install another version of decTalk
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