[DECtalk] Posted on behalf of Snoopy botten: YOU'RE SINGING WITH DECTALK

[Tony Baechler]

Hi.  The CD sounds interesting.  However, I immediately see two 
problems.  First, it's too expensive.  I don't have $60 to spend on 
something like that and I doubt that most others do either.  Second, you 
can download most of the same songs online from the DEC-Talk archive.  You 
can get the stories from Project Gutenberg and easily program your own 
voice changes and sounds if you want.  Fortunately fairy tales like those 
mentioned are available in public domain, plain text form.  The only real 
advantage I see to the CD is the Bible clips and verses, but not for 
$80.  Again, you can get the KJV or a couple other versions in the public 
domain from PG and do it yourself.  The audio CD sounds interesting on how 
to program it to sing but that's in the phoneme manual or you can disect 
the already existing songs.  Even better, ask people on this list to 
help.  So, good luck with the CD package, but I don't think it will sell 
very well.