Re: free sapi5 eloquence
@Joshknnd1982: Perhaps because there was never a true software rendering of the Rc8660 chipset? There's Monologue and the Soundblaster soundcard speech synthesizer, but Monologue is most definitely different from Double Talk, and the Soundblaster speech system is not really a software speech synthesizer, but was rather generated by the hardware of said soundcards.
The other problem is that there are no real store rooms that actually preserve this hardware unfortunately. I have a Road Runner that is seemingly unable to pose as an actual! Doubletalk LT, never mind the fact it has the same serial connection. The Dectalk Express is still in use as is the Braille-n-Speak. It's not just speech synths that are hard to emulate and get into software form, think of the many consumer electronics that are just now being emulated through Mame.
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