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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>jakes site are down<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Den 2022-07-01 kl. 13:39, skrev <a
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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"><dectalk@bluegrasspals.com></a><br>
<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">joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a>
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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. </p>
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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>
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<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<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: </p>
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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. </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> 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">Sent from <a
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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. </p>
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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>>
<br>
<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">Sent from <a
href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986"
moz-do-not-send="true">Mail</a> for Windows</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>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<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 </p>
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