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

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, getting version 4.0 on a cd sounds great and for the conviences of being 
able to have it around is great but $80 just for texts and some demos is to 
much for most people.
My web page is at http://www.nickgawronski.com
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From: "arnaud" <arnaudb at netcava.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at jaybird.no-ip.info>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Posted on behalf of Snoopy botten: YOU'RE SINGING 
WITHDECTALK


> 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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