[DECtalk] Dennis Klatt

[Flint Million]

Wow, amazing observation! Klatt=Talk.. And he made a speech
synthesizer.. Is that one of those meant to be things? LOL
F

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:38 PM,  <Dectalk at aol.com> wrote:
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> Dectalk was originally named Klattalk.  Dennis Klatt, spell it backwards and
> you get "Talk" so you get "Klattalk".
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> Anyway, I did a "TTS SING" Google search and found several singing speech
> engines.  I just can't figure out how to download or buy the software.  The
> samples put Dectalk to shame.
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> SNOOPI BOTTEN
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> In a message dated 3/29/2008 11:22:33 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> fmillion at gmail.com writes:
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> Hey, Changed the subject so we're on a new thread. Wow, that's
> interesting, never knew that's why Dennis wrote that in. The only
> other synth I know of that can sing is MacinTalk on the Macintosh. As
> is there were some pre-programmed tunes that were set up as voices in
> the voice list. VocalWriter is a tool that harnessed this ability and
> offered MIDI-based precise control over the speech synth to allow it
> to sing. I've done a lot of work with it at
> http://speech.themillionweb.net if you're interested. As for PC-based
> and hardware synths, I don't think any other synth has ever had
> inherently-coded singing abilities - most other synths have been made
> to sing simply by setting to monotone and messing with the pitch and
> rate until it kind of sounds decent. DEC-talk still beats them all for
> hardware synths. Correct me if I'm wrong bc I'd love to mess with any
> other synth designed to sing, but far as I know DEC-talk is the only
> hardware-based solution thta can do it!
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> Flint M
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> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Corine Bickley
> <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu> wrote:
> > just a random question from a dectalk engineer - is it still the case that
> > only dectalk can be programmed (note by note) to sing? i was a student of
> > Dennis Klatt and he would be so pleased to know that people still enjoy
> > using his singing features for dectalk. you all probably know that dennis
> > first incorporated singing controls into dectalk so he could have his
> > synthesizer sing Happy Birthday to his daugher Laura, right?
> > corine bickley
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