[DECtalk] List UP?

Alex H. linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 15:02:09 EDT 2011


hi,

for that demo, i think he used a custom Paul voice set of parametsrs I
sent him in another file.

alex

On 8/29/11, jake mcmahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/29/2011 2:15 PM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
>> 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
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>>>             <mailto:linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                 Hi,
>>>>
>>>>                 Your message came through. DECTalk is alive and
>>>>                 singing. :D
>>>>
>>>>                 Alex
>>>>                 On 8/20/2011 11:22 PM, Doris and Chris wrote:
>>>>                 > I have not seen any messages from this list in
>>>>                 over a week. So I was
>>>>                 > wondering if the list was down or if there is a
>>>>                 problem at my end or
>>>>                 > with my subscription.
>>>>                 >
>>>>                 > Cheers,
>>>>                 >
>>>>                 > Doris
>>>>                 >
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>>     I gotcha man.  If anyone can do it, you can dude
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>   Ed, nice job.  The only thing I would have to say is the intonation is
> a little off, but that could be changed by a series of parameters
> inserted by the user.  Nice job dude, keep up the good work.
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