[DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK

Brent Harding bharding at doorpi.net
Mon Feb 27 17:46:09 EST 2006 

Will it work with jaws as a synth?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at bellsouth.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK


> Hi,
> The 4.3 demo version is available at the DECtalk archive which is at
> http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk
> The complete URL is as follows:
> http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/dectalk4.3.zip
> Hope this helps.
> Jayson.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Corine Bickley" <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu>
> To: "'DECtalk Discussions'" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>
>
>> Is the 4.3 version available to anyone interested? How could I get a 
>> copy?
> I
>> work in research and teaching, and often have things I'd like to try out
> (I
>> need wav files generated) by having subjects listen and evaluate.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jayson Smith
>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 4:00 AM
>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>>
>> Hi,
>> As I understand it, the demo programs are produced so that potential
> clients
>> can evaluate DECtalk to see if it meets their needs, from a quality of
>> speech etc. prospective.  I assume that a full version would maybe be a
>> Speak window but also contain libraries and other files so that DECtalk
>> could be interfaced directly with other programs.  The demo, at least
>> version 4.3, will read a file up to about 60K in size.  Also, version 4.3
>> lets you convert the text into a wav file which is very nice!  Version
> 4.6.1
>> or is it 4.61 won't let you do that, and I happen to have a copy of the
>> 4.6.4 demo and it also won't convert to wav.
>> Jayson.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <Dectalk at aol.com>
>> To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:00 AM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks so much!  My colleague Corine is now on  this list and so I
> thought
>> it
>> > was a good question to ask.  I just have my  communication device, plus
>> I've
>> > never heard or seen a Dectalk Express, so that  was a treat for me.
>> >
>> > Say, my friend Dave reminded me that the Dectalk on my  CD is just a
> demo.
>> > What is a full software version like?  All I  ever get for my work is
> the
>> demo
>> > speak windows.  To me, they are like a  full version because they never
>> expire
>> > and they read any size file.  So I  forget that they are demos.  So 
>> > what
>> does
>> > a full version do that the demo  won't?
>> >
>> > I probably could get a full version but I really have  no need for one.
>> I'm
>> > just curious as to what it is and why you would need  it when the demo
>> does it
>> > all?
>> >
>> >
>> > SNOOPI
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > In a message dated 2/26/2006 11:23:32 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>> > ratguy at bellsouth.net writes:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > I've reached the following conclusions.  I experimented  with DECtalk
> 4.3
>> > demo, creating a wav file.  I used your four  questions and invented
>> twelve
>> > more.  Questions starting with How,  Where, Why, what and when had a
>> downward
>> > inflection, like a sentence.   Others had an upward inflection like a
>> > question.  My DECtalk Express  using version 4.2CD of the firmware
> handles
>> > these questions in the same  way.  To hear DECtalk 4.3 asking these
>> > questions, get the following  file.
>> > http://www.bluegrasspals.com/questions.wav
>> > Here are the  questions.  Note that in the fourteenth question there is
> a
>> > comma,  which makes it still sound like a question.  The fifteenth
>> question
>> > is  just the second part of the fourteenth question but is still spoken
>> like
>> > a  sentence.
>> > Have you eaten yet?
>> > How many of your brothers still live at  home?
>> > How many years of school did it take to become a nurse?
>> > Where can  I get my suit cleaned?
>> > How do you want your hair cut?
>> > Would you like to  keep asking me questions?
>> > Should I go to the doctor?
>> > How much wood  should I bring home?
>> > Isn't she beautiful?
>> > Where is Dennis  sitting?
>> > Why does this computer keep crashing?
>> > When will I get to see  that movie?
>> > Who's on First?
>> > If I go to sleep tonight, when will I wake  up?
>> > When will I wake up?
>> > What is the square root of two?
>> >
>> > -----  Original Message -----
>> > From: <Dectalk at aol.com>
>> > To:  <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:12  AM
>> > Subject: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> > >   1.  Have you eaten yet?
>> > >     2.   How many of your brothers still live at  home?
>> > >      3.  How many years of school did it take to become a   nurse?
>> > >     4.  Where can I get my suit  cleaned?
>> > > Part of my work promted me to ask you all  a Dectalk  question.  My
>> > Colleague
>> > > wanted to know how my Dectalk handled  the  above questions.  For the
>> most
>> > part
>> > > the inflections  went up in the middle  of these questions rather 
>> > > than
>> the
>> > >  end.  I have two questions for the  group.
>> > >
>> > > 1.   How does Dectalk Express handle these  questions?
>> > >
>> > >  2.  In the manual it says something about the  "^" changing how
> things
>> are
>> > > emphosized.  I think it's the ^ anyway.    How do you use it and 
>> > > would
>> it
>> > change
>> > > how questions come   out?
>> > >
>> > > I think there are other symbos that change how   things are said, 
>> > > Does
>> > anyone
>> > > know what they are?  I used this  stuff twice  in my life but I 
>> > > forget
>> what
>> > > they are.  I just  remember not being impressed  enough to use them.
>> But
>> > now  I'm
>> > > trying to remember what they were and what  they  did.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >  SNOOPI
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
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