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<p>Hi list,</p>
<p>Jake: That is amazing that you were able to acquire DECTalk
source code. Your message below made my day!</p>
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<p>Here are two additional pieces of information I discovered from
using Jake's new multilingual DECTalk 4.6 NVDA add-on which might
interest some other list members.<br>
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<p>1. It works with NVDA version 2022.2.2.</p>
<p>2. It can sing! I could never get an old DECTalk NVDA add-on
which claimed to have singing functionality to work. When I loaded
Jake's new DECTalk NVDA add-on and a song text file, doing a say
all command caused it to sing the entire song. Unlike speak
windows, pressing the control key stops singing immediately. For
me, a dream has become reality!</p>
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<p>I am so happy right now that I don't mind this DECTalk list being
called "error in phoneme" when I encounter a message from this
list in my inbox. I understand that happens because the list name
is between brackets in message subject line.<br>
</p>
<p>Blake</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/17/2022 10:48 AM, Jake Gross
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the past couple days, I have been
having a field day with some DECtalk source code I got from a
former Fonix Employee. The versions I have sources for are
4.60, 4.60 R008, 4.62, 4.63, 4.64, and 5.0, as well as
Internal development tools that were used to develop various
parts of the engine such as the phoneme and rule tables.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Version 4.60 R008 Is Especially
Interesting, as this Is literally the version that shipped
with Window Eyes. The codebase for this particular version Is
based on code from late 1999, so this was the 4.60 era.
Modifications started on June 13 of 2003 at 8:08 PDT and It
was built at 9:12 PDT on the same day, and the only things
that were modified were some slight tweaks to the audio
playback code and the vocal tract model.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The build log In the archive Is the build
log for the DLL that shipped with window eyes, as the
timestamp of that DLL Is 6/13/03 9:12:21 and the build log
timestamp Is 6/13/03 9:12:20.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4.62 sounds like 4.61 for the most part,
however It has an Interesting bug with a particular word.
Also, type “denissklatt” In any version of DECtalk for a
little easter egg.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Version 4.63 uses HLSyn, so It doesn’t
sound like classic DECtalk at all.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I also put together <a
href="https://keybase.pub/datajake1999/Grossgang/tts/synthesizers%20for%20nvda/dectalk/DECtalk%204.6.0%20Multilingual.nvda-addon"
moz-do-not-send="true">a multilingual NVDA addon for DECtalk
4.6</a>. The Included DLLs were built with Visual Studio
2005 and I disabled the license checks In the code.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I <a
href="https://keybase.pub/datajake1999/Grossgang/tts/DECtalk%20source%20code%20archive/"
moz-do-not-send="true">have uploaded all of this stuff to my
keybase</a>, and the person I was In correspondence with
said It was OK If I did so.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If anyone wants anything built, feel free
to let me know.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Have fun,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jake</p>
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