# deck talk

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Wednesday, 12-Oct-2005 14:52:12

my friend has just downloaded decktalk but he wants to know how he can get started with it! anyone know?

## Post 2 by nikos (English words from a Greek thinking brain) on Thursday, 13-Oct-2005 8:33:22

Dectalk is an external synthesizer that speaks with jaws and to make it more simple it's like a box that somebody can connect it to the computer. So there isn't a way of downloading one because it's not a software but a hardware.

## Post 3 by Wraith (Prince of Chaos) on Thursday, 13-Oct-2005 9:58:06

I'm sorry, but I must contradict here. Dectalk is indeed available in a software format, Freedom Scientific sells a version called Dectalk Access32, and there are other incarnations of the synthesis engine around.
The version your friend downloaded, if it was the demo version, works much like a dectalk would. The exception, of course, is that it's a stand-alone application which cannot be hosted as a speech driver.
Please clarify which version was obtained?

## Post 4 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Thursday, 13-Oct-2005 12:10:41

thanks!
i'll post to this thread when i know more information