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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DA link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I don’t think you can use Jayson’s build with screen readers, since that build only contains demonstration programs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You can, however, use Jake Gross’s build of DECtalk 4.99 for SAPI5.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="https://datajake.braillescreen.net/tts/DECtalk%204.99/DECtalk%204.99%20SAPI5%20New.exe">https://datajake.braillescreen.net/tts/DECtalk%204.99/DECtalk%204.99%20SAPI5%20New.exe</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>He also has a build of DECtalk 4.99 as an NVDA-add-on, however it doesn’t appear to work with the newest NVDA 2025.1.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kind regards:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Aksel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Fra:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <b>På vegne af </b>jamminjerry@jjhof.com<br><b>Sendt:</b> 18. juni 2025 10:14<br><b>Til:</b> 'DECtalk'<br><b>Emne:</b> Re: [DECtalk] DECtalk 4.2 Software for Windows<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I haven’t figure out how you can use this with say JFW, or NVDA. Maybe I am overlooking the very obvious, but I just don’t know how you can do it, and maybe you can’t. I don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Dectalk <dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jayson Smith<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 4, 2025 8:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> DECtalk <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DECtalk] DECtalk 4.2 Software for Windows<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I have a build of DECtalk which I did in March of 2023 on my website. The URL is:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://bluegrasspals.com/dectalk.zip">https://bluegrasspals.com/dectalk.zip</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Say what you will about the legality or illegality of the source code and/or binaries built from it, but if you want DECtalk which sounds as close as possible to the old DECtalk PC units running 4.2, and you want both a Say command line program and a Speak window, this is the way to go.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jayson<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>On 6/4/2025 10:56 AM, Aksel Christoffersen wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>This has, as far as I know, not been posted publicly on the list yet, or in any other DECtalk related forum that I know of. I’m therefore posting it here, n case anybody is interested. My apologies if this is already well known information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>A few months ago, Jake Gross sent me an e-mail detailing that a DLL-version of DECtalk 4.2 for the Intel architecture has now been found. This DLL is able to function on modern Windows like the newer DECtalk DLL’s, like 4.41 and later. However, it is not able to be used with speak.exe, so the most efficient way to use it is probably with say.exe, which works just fine. I personally haven’t tested it with SAPI5 or NVDA yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>I’ve included it in the DECtalk Archive, both in my custom DECtalk Speak Windows installer, and as a standalone ZIP file. When installed through the Speak Windows installer, the shortcut created on the Desktop will launch a command prompt window in the DECtalk 4.2 directory, ready to be used with say.exe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>The Speak Windows installer can be found here<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://dectalk.nu/Software%20and%20Manuals/Software/DECtalk/Speak%20Windows/DECtalk%20Speak%20Windows.exe">https://dectalk.nu/Software%20and%20Manuals/Software/DECtalk/Speak%20Windows/DECtalk%20Speak%20Windows.exe</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>and the standalone ZIP file can be found here<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://dectalk.nu/Software%20and%20Manuals/Software/DECtalk/Speak%20Windows/Individual/Digital%20Equipment%20Corporation/dec42.zip">https://dectalk.nu/Software%20and%20Manuals/Software/DECtalk/Speak%20Windows/Individual/Digital%20Equipment%20Corporation/dec42.zip</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>In terms of sound, I would say it sounds very similar to DECtalk 4.3, though with a few small differences, such as DECtalk 4.2 not slowing down quite as much when encountering an exclamation point. Some of the phonemes also sound a little different when singing. It’s not really similar to the various 4.2 editions for DECtalk hardware in my opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>I would say this is now the earliest version of DECtalk for Windows we have with the classic DECtalk sound, since the 4.1 speak window sounds very muffled to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Here is an audio sample of DECtalk 4.2 with my own demo text.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://dectalk.nu/Speech%20Synthesis%20Demonstrations/DECtalk/Aksel%20Christoffersen/DECtalk%204.2.wav">https://dectalk.nu/Speech%20Synthesis%20Demonstrations/DECtalk/Aksel%20Christoffersen/DECtalk%204.2.wav</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>And here is a file of DECtalk 4.2 reading Jayson’s DECtalk demo, created by Jake on his own site.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://datajake.braillescreen.net/misc_audio/demo42.flac">https://datajake.braillescreen.net/misc_audio/demo42.flac</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Kind regards:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Aksel<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><pre><span lang=EN-US>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=EN-US>Dectalk mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk">https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre></blockquote><p><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>