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<p>If you guys need a place to host, I can give links to my google
drive as I pay for a subscription there.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/1/2022 7:52 AM, Blake Roberts via
Dectalk wrote:<br>
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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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href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a>:<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"><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>
wrote:</p>
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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>
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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"><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>>
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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>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please send the team the DLL files
and we will proceed with research and programming.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<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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