Mastodawn

edit: partly solved

#askfedi #duckduckfedi #BlindFedi
what are folks using to compile their DECTalk user dictionaries? i really don't want to have to set up the whole build environment on Windows just to compile a proonunciation dictionary for #NVDA, but I don't want to use NVDA's dictionaries for DECTalk because i don't want to have to keep toggling phonemic input in the dict entries.

#DECTalk #Blind #Accessibility #A11Y #Help

Mike Dank Mar 10

Oh no. The Cybiko can communicate with the DECtalk device, which now also speaks Meshtastic. What have I done.

#Cybiko #Meshtastic #DECTalk

Kevin L., Keep Coffee Coming Feb 24

This afternoon I partook of a webinar produced by #NFB on the subject of the product 1Password. I’ve been curious about 1Password for a while, and I thought this would be a good idea to get an introduction to it. It was well-done, but I wound up having to bail early. It had nothing to do with the value of the webinar, I learned a lot. Unfortunately, the presenter was using #DecTalk on the computer on which they were demonstrating it. DecTalk just gives me a headache. There are so many far better voices available now, why would anyone stick to what was the standard at the turn of the millennium? But I digress. I’m very interested in 1Password now, but the house is very much divided. Sarah does not trust anything like this; just this week she had to delete all of her passwords from Google. I still might invest in 1Password, we shall see.

Guido Lehwalder Dec 13

I adapted the #I2S Pinout for the #DECtalk Mini from the #MAX98357A Board to my NanoPi Nanohat #PCM5102A
Sounds much louder as the PWM-Version :)
The Board is a #Waveshare RP2040 Zero

Guido Lehwalder Dec 3

From the #DECtalk Mini github repository I commpiled with the #Pico-SDK today the RPi #RP2040 Pico version and changed it
from USB serial 115.200 Baud
to GPIO0/1-TTL-Serial 9600Baud.
Sounds fine on the left 3.5mm Audio channel
(GPIO28/Pin 24) of a
#Olimex RP2040-Pico-PC Board :)

https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini
https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini

Calicosine Sep 16, 2025

I think Bohemian Rhapsody with the main 4 Microsoft Agent characters (Merlin, Genie, Peedy, and Robby) would be cool if it doesn't exist yet. I'd do it but I don't have enough knowledge of making Agents sing. This idea was inspired by this video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=30DUDh197bk

#MicrosoftAgent #DECTalk #MoonbaseAlpha #BohemianRhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody but in Moonbase Alpha

YouTube

Calicosine Sep 16, 2025

Did you know that you can build and use DECTalk on Linux?

https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk

#DECTalk #Linux

GitHub - dectalk/dectalk: Modern builds for the 90s/00s DECtalk text-to-speech application.

Modern builds for the 90s/00s DECtalk text-to-speech application. - dectalk/dectalk

GitHub

Guido Lehwalder Aug 2, 2025

Control your #DECtalk-Mini #TTS
on #Android via #Network ( HTTP or UDP) with the Home24 MediaPlayer App v1.28:

Guido Lehwalder Aug 1, 2025

#DECtalk-Mini as #TTS
for #Android (also v12+):
https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini/releases/tag/v2.0.3

Sof Jun 11, 2025

Hello #blind folks! A very long time ago, I had a zip archive containing a whole bunch of funny stuff that talented people had made with that good old #Dectalk TTS. There were covers, jokes... I lost it during a crash and I'd really like to find it again. If you had it, that would be cool! Thanks