[DECtalk] List UP?

Raymond Grote musicalman1 at comcast.net
Mon Aug 29 19:19:00 EDT 2011


I'd have to agree here. Certain words are blended together and certain vowel and consinent combinations are a little off, but for a draft, it is certainly more than expected. Keep up the great work!

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  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> 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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    take this, for example.  This is a weather file. 


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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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