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

[arnaud]

agree.

Would have purchased it for something like $25 or $30, no more.


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:43:47 -0800, you wrote:

>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.
>
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