[DECtalk] singing the word there's
Raymond Grote
musicalman1 at comcast.net
Fri Feb 29 22:23:55 EST 2008
Yeah, I know about those, but I'd bet some people spend hours just tweaking
one of the voices to get a different one. I have no idea how long it took
for the voices presented in the Red Dwarf series on the Dectalk Archive to
be worked up, but I think they are so much better than the defaults.
Although I have to say the Dennis voice in the latest version of Dectalk,
which I think is 4.6.4, is pretty good in my opinion and I'd use it for
reading longer texts, and probably a lot more if screen readers could use
it. I know Dectalk has been replaced with a newer engine but I doubt it
would be of any use to Dectalk tinkerers like us, but as always I don't know
that much about it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Roberts" <bigd.vi.guy at gmail.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] singing the word there's
> Hi, One of dectalks inline commands is :dv meaning define voice. Not
> sure what all you can do with it, but for more check out chrisN's
> dectalk page. Not sure what the url is, but go to zonebbs.com and
> click website team, then chrisN.
>
> HTH!
>
> On 2/28/08, Raymond Grote <musicalman1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> That works too. But I really wish there was another synth that was fairly
>> accessible like Dectalk but sounded a little better. Still many of these
>> synths aren't free like dectalk is, and, although the default voices get
>> quite boring I have heard some interesting and almost human-like voices
>> created with it.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Katie Madison
>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] singing the word there's
>>
>>
>> Another way to sing the word is d h e h rz, putting pitch and time
>> values
>> where appropriate. Hope this helps.
>> Katie
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Raymond Grote
>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 7:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] singing the word there's
>>
>>
>> Try this:
>> [:phonemeon] ['dherz]
>> That should get the word going, for singing it's just a matter of
>> putting the notes in like you would do for any other syllable. HTH.
>> Speaking of phonemes, Dectalk says the word, just, differently from
>> other synths. It's good enough but I wonder what phonemes it's using? I
>> am
>> not sure if it occurs in just version 4.3, or in other versions, but I'll
>> have to check on it.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Paul Balfe
>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 8:06 PM
>> Subject: [DECtalk] singing the word there's
>>
>>
>> Is there a better way to sing the word there's correctly? i have i
>> have dh<>eh<>rrz. i didn't put any notes. in this email. The reason
>> why
>> I'm asking is, cuz the way dectalk sings it, doesn't sound right. too
>> heavy
>> on the r it seems. Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
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