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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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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/30/2022 10:39 PM,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com">joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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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 class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com"><sightlesswolfentertainment@gmail.com></a> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 30, 2022 21:57<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com">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"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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: </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="https://github.com/datajake1999/SAPI5IBMTTS"
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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"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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
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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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<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, June 23, 2022 4:50 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a
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<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 </p>
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