[DECtalk] Announcement! Sapi5 Dectalk will be available!

Alex H. linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 00:08:29 EDT 2010


Hi Brent,

Nope, it's an actual DECTalk kit. That is, it's the actual synth not a
sampled recording of it like Neospeech voices etc. This is such great
news. I'm 150% supporting this project, I'd love to use NVDA with
DECTalk!

On 9/19/10, Brent Harding <bharding at doorpi.net> wrote:
> I don't think there's too many mt voices out there to play around with that
> people made up. How to make them sound like they're singing would be another
> issue. Awhile back I thought I could make fake Dec Talk singing with an old
> utility called analog x vocoder that I heard about on Main Menu, me just
> saying "ah" to a melody I wanted to come out Dec Talked, and the words
> spoken into a wave file from that old software demo that used to be around.
> Well, nothing useful but noise came from that so I quickly erased that. I
> heard some goofy kid whisper on Youtube that one can vocode speech on speech
> not too long ago, but I don't think there's any electronic way to turn dry
> Dec Talk into song whatever two pieces you put in.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 7:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Announcement! Sapi5 Dectalk will be available!
>
>
>>I made a ModelTalker voice once. I think it sounds recognizably like me, so
>> that if I were ever rendered unable to speak, I could use that voice to do
>> it for me. This was back years ago, I tried once after that, since I have
>> a
>> better microphone now, and found the accessibility to be an issue. Shame
>> too.
>> Jayson
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at doorpi.net>
>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 6:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Announcement! Sapi5 Dectalk will be available!
>>
>>
>>> Hmmm, what kind of kit would do this? Is this that model talker thing
>>> meant
>>> to take your voice and make a synth where you were going to try running
>>> Dec
>>> Talk through it? I was trying to record all that weird garbage to bottle
>>> me
>>> up like that only to find accessibility and the sheer volume of work too
>>> much. I heard that Drew Webber did it and it made him sound, um, weird. I
>>> don't know that using word samples with Dec Talk put in will even give us
>>> anything worth it. If this is some other thing, maybe it'd be cool.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Talksina" <talksina at gmail.com>
>>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 4:01 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Announcement! Sapi5 Dectalk will be available!
>>>
>>>
>>>> yes I'm interested in dectalk sapi5 but before thinking to eventually
>>>> buy, I'd like to know the price...let me know
>>>>
>>>> 2010/9/18, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net>:
>>>>> Hi everyone.
>>>>> My friend Snoopi posted the below on Facebook. I'm passing it along.
>>>>> Feel
>>>>> free to share this information along to others.
>>>>>
>>>>> The comments below my name are what Snoopi posted on Facebook. I added
>>>>> some
>>>>> words of my own in brackets for clarification purposes.
>>>>> Blake
>>>>>
>>>>> If my information is correct, there is a Dectalk kit that our company
>>>>> can
>>>>> get that will allow us to make Dectalk into a SAPI 5. This would make
>>>>> Dectalk available for all screen readers for the blind, and all AAC
>>>>> devices
>>>>> that can handle SAP...I 5 speech engines. This is vital because device
>>>>> companies are slowly getting away from Dectalk. If Dectalk goes away,
>>>>> no
>>>>> one
>>>>> will be able to sing or act any more.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please pass this around the internet. I need documentation of interest
>>>>> in
>>>>> Dectalk.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you would like to see Dectalk remain available [or are interested in
>>>>> ordering when SAPI5 Dectalk is available], please leave a comment [on
>>>>> Facebook], or write dectalk at aol.com. Thank you.See More
>>>>>
>>>>>
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