[DECtalk] Happy Birthday song

ebruckert Bruckert edbruckert at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 11:19:42 EST 2011


I don't know whether to blame Dragon or myself but it should have read 4.6

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>wrote:

> i didn't know that there was a 4.7 I thought after the 4.6x series, it went
> straight to 5. and is the new sapi version or something newer?
>
>  On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:54 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
>
>  Okay I have some news. I solve the problem of the DECtalk 4.7 install, so
> now I can send all of you some 4.7 sound files. This version create.wave
> files and should they just be attached how should I send them and do I need
> to convert them.
>
> I think we will have to do some work to get this where we want it, but
> let's send out some sound files first and get some initial reactions. I will
> use the Dennis voice as I know I want to change some of the settings on
> Paul's voice. As far as the songs go I got a do some digging, I tried to
> keep all these things from computer to computer and hopefully they didn't
> get lost.
>
> I would appreciate getting some text that people would like me to
> synthesize and I'll work on it later today.
>
> As another bit of trivia about developing DECtalk we were really pushing
> the limits back then. Doing a divide is very costly at that time. In all of
> DECtalk there is only one divide which was commented with the only essential
> divide. The signal processing chip that performed the vocal tract model
> function head 128 words on one page of memory and 16 on another, that was
> it. And we could not do a divide in that chip because it didn't divide by
> subtracting the number over and over again until it got to zero counting how
> many loops.
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Corine Bickley <
> corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu> wrote:
>
>> If anyone has the original, Ed Bruckert would. Let's see if he replies.
>> corine
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net>
>> wrote:
>> > Brandon,
>> > I don't know if a recording exists of Dennis Klat having Dectalk sing
>> Happy
>> > Birthday to his daughter. However, here's the version of Happy Birthday
>> that
>> > Snoopi programmed with Dectalk and mixed with music.
>> >
>> > http://pastorsnoopi.twigs76.com/songs/HAPPY BIRTHDAY.mp3
>> >
>> > Blake
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>> > [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Misch
>> > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 7:59 AM
>> > To: DECtalk Discussions
>> > Subject: Re: [DECtalk] File association problem
>> >
>> > is there a recording of this around?
>> >
>> > On Feb 7, 2011, at 7:14 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >        Indeed it was happy birthday, son to his daughter Laura. Shortly
>> > after that someone in our group had a birthday so we programmed the DTC
>> 01
>> > to call him at three o'clock in the morning to wish him a happy
>> birthday.
>> >
>> >        The speech program was really meant as a test program and not an
>> > application. It is dumb as a stump and assumes any file fed to it is
>> ASCII
>> > text.
>> >
>> >
>> >        On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alex H. <
>> linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >                Happy birthday from Dennis Klatt. He introduced singing
>> into
>> > DT
>> >                because he wanted to say happy birthday to his daughter
>> in a
>> > special
>> >                way. That's what I've heard.
>> >
>> >                I really can't comment on setting speak to open .en files
>> > with win7 as
>> >                I just use the builtin open function in speak directly.
>> > However, wasnt
>> >                there a playdec program written some years ago for the
>> 4.3
>> > program
>> >                that would dump a txt or .dec file into speak by copying
>> the
>> > file and
>> >                runnig speak? I think with a few lines of code changed,
>> it
>> > should work
>> >                for .en files too.
>> >
>> >                HTH.
>> >                alex
>> >
>> >
>> >                On 2/6/11, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >                > isn't it that song about poisoning pigions in the park?
>> > that was on an issue
>> >                > of playback magazine from 1991.
>> >                >
>> >                > On Feb 6, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Flint Million (iPod) wrote:
>> >                >
>> >                >> The dos tools came with "moonlight in Vermont" in the
>> > demo app. That's the
>> >                >> first song I ever heard.
>> >                >>
>> >                >> Sent from my iPod
>> >                >>
>> >                >> On Feb 6, 2011, at 5:46 PM, "Blake Roberts"
>> > <beroberts at hughes.net> wrote:
>> >                >>
>> >                >>> I know the answer to Ed's trivia question. I'll let
>> you
>> > guys keep
>> >                >>> guessing
>> >                >>> for a bit. No reason I should spoil this fun
>> triviagame.
>> >                >>> Blake
>> >                >>> -----Original Message-----
>> >                >>> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>> >                >>> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf
>> Of
>> > ebruckert
>> >                >>> Bruckert
>> >                >>> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 3:47 PM
>> >                >>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>> >                >>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] File association problem
>> >                >>>
>> >                >>> Hello, I can't help you very well with changing file
>> > associations, but
>> >                >>> speak
>> >                >>> should be very happy with the.txt file that just
>> tells
>> > it to you now
>> >                >>> treated
>> >                >>> as normal ASCII text.
>> >                >>>
>> >                >>> Trivia question for you all;
>> >                >>>
>> >                >>>
>> >                >>> What was the first song DECtalk saying and why.
>> >                >>>
>> >                >>>
>> >                >>>
>> >                >>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Blake Roberts
>> > <beroberts at hughes.net>
>> >                >>> wrote:
>> >                >>>
>> >                >>>
>> >                >>>   All,
>> >                >>>   I wrote about this problem before. I am writing
>> again
>> > because no
>> >                >>> response
>> >                >>>   has been received.
>> >                >>>
>> >                >>>   I use the Dectalk 4.40 speak window to program
>> songs.
>> > This version
>> >                >>> of the
>> >                >>>   speak window plays files with an .en extension. On
>> my
>> > new Windows 7
>> >                >>>   computer, I am having problems setting up the EN
>> file
>> > association.
>> >                >>>
>> >                >>>   Whenever I tell Windows to use speak.exe to launch
>> EN
>> > files (either
>> >                >>> via
>> >                >>>   properties, change or the "Open With" dialog],
>> Windows
>> > automatically
>> >                >>> assumes
>> >                >>>   I want to use Windows Media Center for this file
>> > association. I
>> >                >>> remember in
>> >                >>>   Windows XP, there was a way to edit a file type
>> > manually. I have not
>> >                >>> yet
>> >                >>>   found a similar tool in Windows 7.
>> >                >>>
>> >                >>>   I hope someone on-list has a suggestion for
>> modifying
>> > the Dectalk EN
>> >                >>> file
>> >                >>>   association in Windows 7. I need help!
>> >                >>>   Blake
>> >                >>>
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