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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>And no, I will not charge anyone for the installer. It’s free so everybody can benefit from it and enjoy it!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Dectalk <dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Blake Roberts via Dectalk<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 1, 2022 3:57<br><b>To:</b> DECtalk <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><br><b>Cc:</b> Blake Roberts <BEarlRoberts@aol.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DECtalk] FW: decTalk sapi5 installer<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Josh,<o:p></o:p></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?<o:p></o:p></p><p>Blake<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 6/30/2022 10:39 PM, <a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com">joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> Rory MICHIE <a href="mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com"><sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com></a> <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 30, 2022 21:57<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com">joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: decTalk sapi5 installer<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>This is certainly a possibility. We will look into this, as it seems the building blocks have already been built.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com">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">Rory MICHIE</a><br><b>Subject: </b>RE: decTalk sapi5 installer<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="https://github.com/datajake1999/SAPI5IBMTTS">https://github.com/datajake1999/SAPI5IBMTTS</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> Rory MICHIE <<a href="mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com">sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 24, 2022 13:23<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com">joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: decTalk sapi5 installer<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Unfortunately we will not be able to implement speech rate and pitch changes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>However, there may be a workaround:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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 style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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 style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Sightless Wolf Entertainment team.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com">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">Rory MICHIE</a><br><b>Subject: </b>RE: decTalk sapi5 installer<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>$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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Josh Kennedy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> Rory MICHIE <<a href="mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com">sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 22, 2022 18:46<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com">joshknnd1982@gmailcom</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: decTalk sapi5 installer<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thank you for contacting us regarding your freelance work<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Please send the team the DLL files and we will proceed with research and programming.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Note: the programming might take up to a month, depending on potential complexities. We will contact you regarding any further information.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com">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">sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>decTalk sapi5 installer<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Dectalk mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk">https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>