[DECtalk] DECtalk SAPI
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Mon Sep 20 09:12:34 EDT 2010
I think you are asking how I enhance the files? Well, to my ears, Dectalk
sounds flat, so does every single music file I ever work with. I have lab
software where I can enhance stuff. So first I add in an ever slight echo
to everything. I don't want an actual echo, I just do it enough so
everything sounds more real. It makes Dectalk sound much more human.
Then I have a set of unmarked controls that greatly effect the base,
travel, and bring out sounds that you can't normally hear. And this also helps
Dectalk sound more human.
Volume drops also help. Volume drops let me raise or lower the volume of
Dectalk which helps create feeling.
If we buy the kit, I hope I can have a crack at changing stuff. I hear
all this talk on how hard it is to make a female voice sound human. Hard
nothing, I've done it. So if I can set the controls in the kit to ever
slightly echo without an actual echo, and change a few settings in the female
voices, I know I can make them have human quality.
I hope to God they don't only have 5.0 because I for one can't stand it!
But I was told a few years ago that 4.40 was available as a kit and it
comes with instructions and an open dictionary. I'm hoping to add cool stuff
to the dictionary before we release it. I have some way cool stuff in mind.
One is, in honor of Dennis Klatt, I want to set it do if you type
"DennisKlatt" as one word, it will tell the history of Dennis Klatt. I have tones
of other ideas I hope to add to the dictionary. And, I want "Alt P" to
play the message, so it's easier for the blind. I feel like I have 200 items
I hope I get to add to the dictionary just to make it more fun.
But this is a company thing, so I might not get to add anything to the
dictionary, but I'm hoping I can. In the 90's I use to type in weird stuff
hoping I would stumble on a hidden message from Dennis or something. I never
did. So I'd love to do that stuff just because I think it would be fun.
SNOOPI BOTTEN
In a message dated 9/20/2010 8:10:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ratguy at insightbb.com writes:
How does the enhanced singing work? Just curious.
Jayson
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From: "ebruckert Bruckert" <edbruckert at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 7:27 AM
Subject: [DECtalk] DECtalk SAPI
> There was previously done a DECtalk SAPI5 that was done years ago.
> I know nothing of the kit mentioned, but the singing capacbility was put
> in
> by Dennis Klatt early in. We always kept that capacbility in it and
> someone
> would have to deliberately shut it off, which makes no sense to me. The
> only
> chnage was that tthe phoneme representation chnaged at one point, making
> older song files not play without corretion. Earlier I mentioned that I
> added an enhqanced singing capability that we could probably get out
> somehow, but it signifcantly changes how to program it. If there is
> interewst I can tell you more about it.
>
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