What's New in DECtalk Software V4.5?

DECtalk Software V4.5 for Windows 95 and Windows NT contains the following new features and improvements:

Distributed on CD-ROM.

Year 2000 support speaks four-digit year specifications as four-digit year specifications, for example, the year 1998 is spoken as nineteen ninety eight, and speaks 2-digit year specifications as a 2-digit number without asssuming the century, for example, the year 98 is spoken as ninety eight.

United Kingdom English is added.

SAPI mark syntax (\mrk=\ tag) is working. The TextData interface now accepts tagged text. The \mrk=\ tag is the only tag supported. Other tags are ignored.

ITTSBufNotifySink: The BookMark and WordPosition interfaces are now functional. The timing of the TextDataStarted and TextDataDone notifications is corrected.

ITTSNotifySink: The Visual interface is now functional; the timing of the AudioStart and AudioStop notifications is corrected.

DECtalk Software V4.5 provides better indexing performance than previous versions.

Multi-Language (ML) support is functional.

Sample programs Speak and dtsample are updated to Multi-Language (ML)functionality. All sample applets are ML-compliant code. Some sample applets demonstrate ML-application programming.

The User Dictionary compiler now handles accent characters (extended ASCII).

OLE notification support, AudioStart and AudioStop, now returned.

The current DECtalk Software implementation of the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) is described in the appendix3.txt file that is included with the DECtalk Software installation files.