# What's New in DECtalk Software V4.6?

DECtalk Software V4.6 contains the following new features:

· Installation tested on Windows 98 and Windows 2000.

· Support for Linux.

· Support for the German language.

· Disabled license error pop-up window from the DECtalk API (DAPI) engine.

· Significantly increased compliance with the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); see APPENDIX3.TXT.

· Enhanced Latin American and Castilian Spanish.

· Windows CE support, which includes a static version of windic.exe that allows the Windows host to support a user-defined dictionary, and full registry support.

· Y2K compliance.

· Over 170 bugs fixed, including the following:

q Various application or system hangs or crashes caused by data path, synchronization, and dictionary failures corrected.

q User dictionary compiler failures corrected.

q Wave file headers corrected.

q Use of extended ASCII characters corrected.

q New in-line command Say filtered-letter added.

q Number processing changes automatically by language.

q Memory leaks corrected.

q Main dictionary wordclass and function words added.

q Word and number stressing corrected.

q Diphthong, phoneme, homograph, and allophone processing corrected.