Re: What a find! DECTalk!

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Hi,

I heard about this some time ago and have been meaning to try it, glad to know it actually works and people are using it!

Thanks,

Aaron

On 2/22/23 03:59, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
I'm happy to be in the fediverse right now. Looking through my timeline, I just found a link to a Github repository that has DECTalk source code, apparently released by some of the original DECTalk developers.

https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk

The LICENSE file still has scary words like "proprietary" and "confidential" and "all rights reserved," but the source builds and works. I have it working in speech-dispatcher with Orca as I write this.


Note that this is the DECTalk software version 4.x, the one that sounds just like the DECTalk Express from the 1990's, so anyone who needs hardware speech should feel right at home with this. No, this is not the 5.x DECTalk that really sounds like crap. Have fun and enjoy, and I do hope they fix this license soon. It would be good to have another truly free speech synthesizer to play with, and this is definitely a huge step in that direction.

~Kyle

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