[DECtalk] higher notes

[Brent Harding]

I still think those synths still sound like pieces put together. I never 
cared for the "natural" speech. I think it sort of seems like a bad way to 
try and synthesize a specific person's voice, but it obviously can't sound 
any good at altered speed.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at bellsouth.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] higher notes


> Hello,
> While I have heard files of Microsoft Mike and Mary singing, I have no 
> idea
> how that was done. Unfortunately, the modern trend seems to be leaning
> toward making voices based on actual recorded human speech. AT&T Natural
> Voices are one such system. As far as I know, there's absolutely no way to
> get these voices to sing, period. The only way would be to have the voices
> speak the text, then use a vocoder to make them sing, but even then, the
> durations couldn't be corrected to fit the song. Personally, I think the
> modern human voices sound more human, but are somehow not as pleasing at
> least to my ears as synthesizers that generate synthetic speech, such as
> DECtalk, L&H, etc. The way a human-based synthesizer works is that a human
> goes into a studio and probably spends hours recording thousands of 
> things,
> then they take that and make a voice out of it. That's how the ModelTalker
> project works. You download their software and record 1649 utterances
> consisting mostly of short sentences and phrases, some of which are quite
> funny. Then a voice is generated from those recordings.
> Jayson.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Balfe" <taz0801 at charter.net>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] higher notes
>
>
>> how do you get microsoft sapi voices to sing?  i know this is not dectalk
>> but it would be nice to here the real speak voices sing.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at bellsouth.net>
>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] higher notes
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > As far as I know, there's no way to do it. Maybe you're confusing
> DECtalk
>> > with Vocalwriter, which does have a wider pitch range. If you're sure
> it's
>> > DECtalk, then the only way I know of to simulate higher notes is to 
>> > have
>> > DECtalk actually sing a lower note and then speed it up. This is one of
>> > the
>> > major drawbacks to DECtalk singing, as far as I'm concerned. You can
>> > simulate one octave of lower range with a certain command, not sure 
>> > what
>> > it
>> > is now.
>> > Jayson.
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > From: "Paul Balfe" <taz0801 at charter.net>
>> > To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:10 PM
>> > Subject: [DECtalk] higher notes
>> >
>> >
>> > how do I make dectalk go past 5th octave c?  i've seen it done in some
>> > songs
>> > i've listened to.
>> >
>> >
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