Oh yes they were. That’s why Iam
glad my dectalk express bit the dust. It was driven by a serial port. These
newer computers do not have support for those kinds of things. That’s why I’m
truly glad my dectalk express died. For that reason I do not want to go back
to it as much as I liked it.
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
Those old DECtalks were pretty big and were driven from a
serial port
(RS232). I have five of them that I have not tried
with NVDA yet. If
anyone would like one (or a couple) let me know, We
could come to a deal.
Howard
On 7/11/2021 3:34 AM, Ian Blackburn wrote:
> The deck talk that sounded the best was
the one that was about as big as a flatbed scanner Version two it was
> On 11 Jul 2021, at 4:30 pm, Ian Blackburn mailto:ianblackburn@...
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> The hardware dick talk is USB driven it sounds okay
but I haven’t used one for at least 10 or 11 years
> On 11 Jul 2021, at 4:24 pm, Curtis Delzer mailto:curtis@... wrote:
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> I am using dectalk with NVDA 20000-4
> and hopefully the add-on will be updated. Seems it was
legal when I got it.
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> Curtis Delzer
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> On 7/10/2021 12:33 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote:
>> I also like decktalk and eloquence, I would pay
for a decktlak add on if one existed as well.
>> *From:*nvda@nvda.groups.io mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io *On Behalf Of
*Micallef Michael at FITA
>> *Sent:* Friday, July 9, 2021 7:07 PM
>> *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io
>> *Subject:* Re: [nvda] decktalk addon for nvda
>> I agree with Gene 100% the only dectalk version
that is available is a hardware based in a usb versio, and its not cheap and
because I never heard it I don’t know about its speech quality compared with
the dectalk of the venerable window-eyes.
>> *From:*nvda@nvda.groups.io mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io> *On
Behalf Of *Gene via groups.io
>> *Sent:* Saturday, 10 July 2021 02:01
>> *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io
>> *Subject:* Re: [nvda] decktalk addon for nvda
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>> As far as I know, there is no legal Dectalk add-on
at least not one that sounds at all like what would be expected. I don’t
know if it is possible to purchase Dectalk as a stand alone synthesizer, such
as a SAPI 5 synthesizer, but I’ve never heard of that either.
>> You may be able to get more information about the
legal ability to purchase Dectalk with a search but I’ve been on this list
since the rather early days of NVDA, and I think there would have been
information on the list before this if there were a legal add-on, and a legal
way to ;purchase Dectalk, at least at anything like a reasonable price, given
the interest in Dectalk.
>> Years ago, someone who worked with Dectalk
provided a legal version of Dectalk but it was evidently very old and it
sounded very different than the Dectalk people expect.
>> Gene
>> -----Original Message-----
>> *From:*Josh Kennedy mailto:joshknnd1982@...
>> *Sent:*Friday, July 09, 2021 6:42 PM
>> *To:*nvda@nvda.groups.io mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io
>> *Subject:*Re: [nvda] decktalk addon for nvda
>> I would like a decTalk addon that works with
NVDA2021.1 as well, but I prefer decTalk 4.41 through 4.6.
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