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<p>I agree with Josh in requesting that Jake create a SAPI5 version
of Dectalk 4.60 if possible. He has a very valid point that future
updates to NVDA could break the present add-on. Also, with SAPI we
can use DECTalk outside of NVDA.</p>
<p>Blake</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/17/2022 4:36 PM, Josh Kennedy
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cite="mid:B02E005A-9EDB-4427-8A69-E991B7E5CDAC@gmail.com">could
you also possibly make a sapi5 version? Because when NVDA gets
updated again, at some point this add on, will eventually break.
Where as a sapi5 version of this will not break at least not for a
very, very long time.
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<blockquote type="cite">On Sep 17, 2022, at 10:48, 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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