<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Personally, for me, I like the loud volume because all the other versions of DECtalk are too quiet.</div><div><br></div><div>I can barely hear the other versions of DECtalk when my volume is low, while I can hear Eloquence and DECtalk 4.60 fine.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Brandon</div><div><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 17, 2022, at 4:22 PM, Jayson Smith <jaybird@bluegrasspals.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I've just installed the NVDA Addon you
made, and for what it is, it sounds great! It seems to me that the
version in that addon has a bit too much overall volume, as
there's quite a bit of audio clipping when it is run at 100%
volume. Just an observation.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">To be honest, my favorite software
version of DECtalk has always been 4.3, for which I assume no
source code is known to still exist anywhere? Also, what ever
became of that version of DECtalk where they said they were adding
a classic mode, and we all thought it sounded suspiciously like a
TSI speech synthesizer or something?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Just some thoughts,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/17/2022 10:48 AM, Jake Gross
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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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