[DECtalk] DecTalk newbie

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
I have absolutely no idea about the sample rate of the Echo synths.  The
Cricket has some aliasing in there.  Man I wish somebody'd come out with an
Apple emulator for Linux or Windows that has an Echo emulator.  But now
we're getting way off-topic.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at jaybird.no-ip.info>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] DecTalk newbie


> Hi.  OK, sorry for misunderstanding you.  Yes, I'm sure you are correct
> that no early speech synthesizer would support CD quality sample
> rates.  There would be no reason.  Probably the DEC-Talk had the highest
> sampling rate of any at the time.  I know that the new SAPI 5 voices do
> support much higher sampling rates because I played with them when they
> came out.
>
> Now I'm curious about something.  What was the sample rate of the Echo
> synthesizers?  I would think it was rather low because of what it had to
> work with.  I think I read in a manual that it was only 8,000 HZ but I
> would have to find it again.  I think it would obviously be 8-bit audio
> since that's all the computers would support.  I used an Echo GP for the
PC
> many years ago and that could have been 16-bit audio.  I don't have specs
> for the Echo PC/GP but that would be interesting.
>
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