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<p>Hi, Is Dectalk still actively being worked on and are there any
plans to fully open source this code as this might allow even more
work to be done on it? I liked the Dectalk voices a lot and used
an express in the dos and linux and even in the windows days but
the device can not work on battery power and with modern systems
it really does not do much. Nick Gawronski<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/17/2022 4:14 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">And if possible both 32bit sapi5 and 64bit
sapi5 so it works with narrator.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Dectalk
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com"><dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com></a> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Jake Gross<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 17, 2022 10:49<br>
<b>To:</b> Blake Roberts via Dectalk
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com"><dectalk@bluegrasspals.com></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DECtalk] It's time to bust some DECtalk
myths<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Version 4.63 uses HLSyn, so It doesn’t
sound like classic DECtalk at all.<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If anyone wants anything built, feel free
to let me know.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Have fun,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jake<o:p></o:p></p>
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