Hi Raman,
I use software dectalk. I purchased it last October from Fonix.
I am happy with the software dectalk. The only thing that is cumbersome is the small delay in speech - it slows me down when editing documents etc. If there is a good speech server which integrates the Cepstral theta voices with emacspeak, I will switch over. I have tried using eflite compiled with the 16Hz Kal voice but I am not satisfied with the quality of voice output.
Regards,
Arsalan
T. V. Raman writes:
> I'd like to conduct a brief survey on the Emacspeak list to see if it
> is worthwhile to continue the support for Software Dectalk. The
> Dectalk has been my favorite TTS engine for a long time, but the
> reason I'm asking is to see if the number of users it has justifies
> the time investment.
>
> Last I checked around the time of the DTK 5.0 release John Oelfke of
> Fonix indicated that they had less than 25 software Dectalk customers
> for Emacspeak --- and if that is indeed the number, I for one think
> it's time to drop it.
>
> If you are interested in seeing Software Dectalk support continue in
> Emacspeak, please follow-up to this note so you get counted ---
> with answers to the following:
>
> 0) Do you use the software Dectalk with Emacspeak?
> 1) When did you buy it (approx date)
>
> Please follow-up to this note so that your message goes to both the
> emacspeak list and John Oelfke
> And if there are indeed a very small number,
> I can safely drop support for it. This is of course not to discourage
> other folks who may want to pick up maintaining that code going
> forward independent of what we find out as we count up the numbers.
>
>
> --Raman
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> --raman
>
>
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--raman
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