[DECtalk] List UP?

Blake Roberts beroberts at hughes.net
Mon Aug 29 14:48:07 EDT 2011


I like how the weather.wav file sounds. I could understand the entire file.
I realize this is a rough draft. How was the test.wav generated? While I
could understand weather.wav completely, test.wav is indecipherable to my
ears. Just my feedback. Thanks for all of your hard work, Ed. Again,
although weather.wav is only a rough draft, it sounds great in my opinion.
Blake

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First some baseline testing stuff. Do not over test it in other words in the
beginning this is a rough cut so if we get into too many details or changes
it will just all become mud. We should only make a few changes at a time,
the other problem may become differences of opinion especially with some of
the voices which were never very stable because we never really liked
exactly what we had. This is an old version of DECtalk so occasionally you
will hear little homes at the end of things during what should be silence.
This is a mathematical problem called a limit cycle when we're finished I'll
add the new code I developed to squelch it. It took us years to figure out a
way to get rid of it perceptually we never could get rid of it
mathematically. Lastly I had to change the gain of voicing on the modified
voice that was sent without going into a long explanation which I can later
if people want the gains of the cascade vocal track have never ever been
constant it's a mathematical issue where you're constantly trying to adjust
them between quantization and overload and we've never been able to
guarantee them.
Lastly people can think about singing. The problem is that most SAPI
applications strip stuff out so I'm looking for suggestions of how we could
fool it and tell DECtalk that it was supposed to go into phonemic mode so it
can sing. I don't know what can and  cannot get through the various
applications and while 
 
Again don't put too much effort in two critical listening at this stage as
were not fine-tuning it just training 3n where targets are


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:06 PM, jake mcmahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com>
wrote:


On 8/29/2011 11:52 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote: 

Hello everyone the good news is I had a generator the bad news is I had to
use it. I'm having trouble with the 2008 free edition of visual C I can't
run the debugger. But before I uninstall and reinstall it I want to get this
baseline out but it's a little bit painful because I can't run the debugger
so I'm doing it by an archaic method. So it'll be out sometime today and
then I'll reload visual C. 


On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM, jake mcmahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com>
wrote:


On 8/28/2011 11:40 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote: 

Ed K okay I'm ready. I have a base tuning of all the voices. So send me the
various files to test with and we will try and get some agreement on the
voices.
 

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:32 AM, ebruckert Bruckert <edbruckert at gmail.com>
wrote:


I was visiting my grandson, back to woek today..... 


On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Alex H. <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com> wrote:


Hi,

Your message came through. DECTalk is alive and singing. :D

Alex

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I gotcha man.  If anyone can do it, you can dude


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