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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'>The link appears to have expired. But I suppose the people using DECtalk can use the SAPI5 version until a NVDA 2025.1 version becomes available. I was personally just curious.<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><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 13:45<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"'>It looks like jack frost did something to one. It wasn’t on github. He posted it on mastodon so I don’t think it is wrong if I poste the link to it here. I don’t know the original person that wrote this, but I think he updated it maybe? At any rate, here it is, and like I said, it does work with NVDA 2025.1<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"'>Dectalk for NVDA 2025.1 is ready. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="https://wormhole.app/z9jkdy#R2DrSeeMIGuKwoMT5OH9uQ">https://wormhole.app/z9jkdy#R2DrSeeMIGuKwoMT5OH9uQ</a><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>Aksel Christoffersen<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 18, 2025 6:05 AM<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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I personally think DECtalk 4.99 does sound much like the classic DECtalk versions like 4.2, 4.3 and 4.40 in most aspects, though it has a few small differences that I’m thinking about suggesting to fix in a GitHub ppool request.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Which NVDA add-on are you experiencing this bug with?<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 [<a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>] <b>På vegne af </b><a href="mailto:jamminjerry@jjhof.com">jamminjerry@jjhof.com</a><br><b>Sendt:</b> 18. juni 2025 11:16<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 was hoping for the old 4.2 classic sound, but I don’t think the 4.99 has that, or am I mistaken in this? <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"'>I do have a dectalk for NVDA addon that works with the new NVDA 2025.1, however I did find a small bug that is in it that has been in it for a little while, and did bring it to someone’s attention, but it is just a small one. It does have the classic older dectalk sound we all love, but here is the bug I found. Basically if you are using this addon, if you quit NVDA with it loaded, it doesn’t fully unload, so when you try to load JFW, and try to use something like tweesecake, it won’t work right. What you can do to get around this small bug is before you quit NVDA, switch to a different synth like the IBM one. Then you can quit NVDA, and things are fine.<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 <<a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Aksel Christoffersen<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 18, 2025 4:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'DECtalk' <<a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a>><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><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 [<a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>] <b>På vegne af </b><a href="mailto:jamminjerry@jjhof.com">jamminjerry@jjhof.com</a><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 <<a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jayson Smith<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 4, 2025 8:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> DECtalk <<a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a>><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 style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Dectalk mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a href="mailto:Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><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>