Steve, Thank you for this fascinating bit of info. Is the Fred voice from Apple derived from Klat-talk, as it sure does sound remarkably like one of the Dec-talk voices. I guess I now know why the primary voice was called Dennis.
David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist Feel free to visit my Web site WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info On 10/19/2016 9:07 AM, Steve Clower via Talk wrote: > To add to this, Dennis Klatt invented the Klat-Talk algorithm (which is > available in the public domain) in the 1980's based on modeling waveforms of > his own voice through a computer. DECTalk is derived from Klat-Talk, as is > Macintalk on the Apple platform, though the two projects quickly branched off > the original Klat-Talk code. This is why DECTalk and Macintalk sound so > similar, yet different. > > Steve > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+sclower=aisquared....@lists.window-eyes.com] > On Behalf Of Chris Grabowski via Talk > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 8:57 AM > To: Kevin Barry <krba...@gmail.com>; Window-Eyes Discussion List > <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> > Subject: RE: speech synthesizers > > You can, sort of, its name is Fred. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Talk > [mailto:talk-bounces+cgrabowski=aisquared....@lists.window-eyes.com] On > Behalf Of Kevin Barry via Talk > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 4:15 AM > To: CJ &AA MAY <chrisalis...@gmail.com>; Window-Eyes Discussion List > <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> > Subject: Re: speech synthesizers > > As do I. > There are many newer ones which say they are human sounding, they are not, > and in my opinion they are not as clear as easy to understand as the > venerable DecTalk I wish I could get it on my iPhone. > > On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, CJ &AA MAY via Talk < > talk@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote: > >> I originally used Dectalk Express and despite the wide choice of much >> more human voices, I still prefer to use Dectalk Access 32. >> >> Alison >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the >> author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >> >> For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/ >> options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/krbarry%40gmail.com. >> For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/ >> listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/ private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> > > -- > Sent from Kevin's iPhone. > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/cgrabowski%40aisquared.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/sclower%40aisquared.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/david.goldfield%40outlook.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com