[DECtalk] mod talker

Fri Aug 18 13:40:30 EDT 2006

hmm harmonised speech like a vocoder.
Would sound quite sifi.
Are there any scripts or anything for jaws?
I can't use either program mod talk and inv tool in that program, to 
a limited extent I can use hal but.
I havn't been able to nut it all out.
At 10:27 p.m. 18/08/2006, you wrote:
>Hi,
>As I've said before, the developers know about the nonworking Sapi thing and
>they're working on it.  It's most likely a bug in their software, but since
>they haven't yet been able to reproduce it themselves it's hard for them to
>troubleshoot.
>As for recording voices, I had some of the same thoughts you did when I
>first started, but this isn't a product out of science fiction.  The fact
>is, by default, there are one thousand six hundred forty nine specific
>things the system wants a speaker to say in order to generate a synthetic
>version of that speaker's voice.  This includes some sentences which a
>person using a communication device might use, some words, some phrases,
>some of which are reasonable and others don't make any sense (for example,
>"latching churches" or "darling potato") and some pure nonsense not real
>words which, I'm sure, is designed to capture several versions of different
>speech sounds.  This inventory of things to say is designed to capture all
>of the sounds a person can make while speaking in the English language.  In
>order to make a voice out of a prerecorded thing, you'd certainly have to
>create your own inventory from scratch since you couldn't make, say, a
>character from a movie say the 1649 things it wants.  You'd also have to
>insure that every last speech sound got captured at least once.  For a
>demonstration of this, look at www.bluegrasspals.com/modeltalker and grab
>sample1.  Here, I had gotten to a point where several of the speech sounds
>necessary to speak what I had typed had not yet been recorded, and the
>result is gaps in the speech, since the system had no idea how to synthesize
>those missing sounds.  Also, there would need to be no background noise,
>music, etc. in the files, since that would only confuse the recorder and/or
>put undesired sounds in the speech produced.
>Jayson.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "shaun everiss" <shaun.e at xtra.co.nz>
>To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 5:39 AM
>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] mod talker
>
>
> > Well thats strange, I tried this with my software, sam didn't even
> > detect the voice.
> > And well every voice usually plays even in control panel/speech mode.
> > This one did not.
> > Its a pitty this does not work as expected, as I was hoping to use
> > the system for an unlimited synth thingy maybe some speech recordings.
> > Can this modtalker and invtool accept stuff from other files other
> > than stuff recorded if they have speech in them?
> > Or just wav files in general?
> > That could open the way to some interesting voices already set as
>synthetic.
> > The trek comps come to mind, both voyager, tng, and tos as I have a
> > load of files on each plus the elete force 1 and 2, and ofcause some
> > borg stuff.
> > At 09:10 p.m. 18/08/2006, you wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >First, SAPI isn't working for lots of blind folks, and the developers are
> > >aware of this.  The funny thing is, they can get SAPI working just fine.
>I
> > >told Tim to download and install the Jaws demo and see if that makes Sapi
> > >stop working.  Since lots of blind people are having problems, yet the
> > >developers can use Sapi just fine, blindness related software could
> > >certainly be a variable.
> > >As for Invtool, please check out Invtutor which is available with the
> > >program.  This is a series of web pages which should get you going.  As
>I've
> > >always said, there's lots of mouse clicking required but thank God the
> > >buttons are labeled.
> > >To select the high-quality voice once it's installed, I haven't done
>this,
> > >but go into Modeltalker, hit Alt+O then Enter for the Options dialog.
>You
> > >have to know what the voice database is called, maybe if there's
> > >instructions for the voice it tells you.  Anyway, delete what's in the
>box
> > >and type in the name of the new voice database.  Then mouse click on the
>Ok
> > >button to put the setting into effect.
> > >Hope this helps!
> > >Jayson.
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "shaun everiss" <shaun.e at xtra.co.nz>
> > >To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> > >Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 4:17 AM
> > >Subject: [DECtalk] mod talker
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi I have a few questions.
> > > > I just downloaded and installed all componants.
> > > > I use jaws and hal.
> > > > I have a few questions.
> > > > How do you record your own voice in the inv tool?
> > > > How do you get the good quality voice to select in mod talker?
> > > > How do you get mod talker  voice speaking for sapi?
> > > > I tried with the control panel /speech/tts page and it said the voice
> > > > can not play or something to that effect.
> > > > I have the entire 162mb of files on the system as I write this.
> > > >
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