[DECtalk] Sample text

Jayson Smith ratguy at insightbb.com
Fri Feb 11 09:31:35 EST 2011


Hi,

Do you have Dropbox or Sendspace? If so, either would work for me. If not, 
you can attach it to a private message to me and then I can upload it for 
others to hear. My address, scrambled to keep spam bots from harvesting it, 
is as follows.
rat guy at insight bb dot com.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon Misch" <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Sample text


> ok oe will be sent earlier. how do you want me to do this?
>
> On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:18 AM, Jayson Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just for kicks, can you make a recording of your DECtalk USB playing that
>> file? I'd love to hear it, and I'm sure others would too.
>> Jayson
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Brandon Misch" <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 8:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Sample text
>>
>>
>>> i even got it to work on my dectalk usb and it didn't sound like 4.40 at
>>> all
>>>
>>> On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:38 AM, Pitermach wrote:
>>>
>>>> couldn't agree more as well. This is why I don't use dectalk in mobile
>>>> speak...
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
>>>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 2:56 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Sample text
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I definitely agree with you there.
>>>>> Jayson
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>> From: "Brandon Misch" <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
>>>>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:07 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Sample text
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> i think 4.3 sounds best out of all of those.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Check out this URL. Includes sample.txt which is the sample text I
>>>>>>> posted
>>>>>>> earlier, and files 43.wav, 461.wav, and 464.wav with version 4.3, 
>>>>>>> 4.61
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> 4.64 respectively synthesizing the text.
>>>>>>> http://www.bluegrasspals.com/decsamples.zip
>>>>>>> Jayson
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>>>> From: "Brandon Misch" <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 5:21 PM
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Sample text
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> hey can someone put this into mp3 so we can see how the newer
>>>>>>>> versions
>>>>>>>> handle this stuff?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've created a sample text for testing. This speaks very briefly
>>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>>> each
>>>>>>>>> of the nine factory default voices, then speaks a few sentences 
>>>>>>>>> each
>>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>>> several of the voices from the DECtalk rendition of Red Dwarf. The
>>>>>>>>> Red
>>>>>>>>> Dwarf
>>>>>>>>> voices were designed to be used with DECtalk 4.3 and don't sound
>>>>>>>>> quite
>>>>>>>>> right
>>>>>>>>> in 4.61 or 4.64 in some cases. In general, my opinion is that
>>>>>>>>> several
>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> factory voices sound different in the 4.6X versions than they did 
>>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> Digital versions. For example, Wendy doesn't, in fact, whisper.
>>>>>>>>> Anyway,
>>>>>>>>> here's the text.
>>>>>>>>> Jayson
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [:phoneme on]
>>>>>>>>> [:np] [:ra 250]
>>>>>>>>> Hello. This is the factory default Paul voice. I will now test the
>>>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>>>> voices.
>>>>>>>>> [:nb] I'm Betty, the default female voice.
>>>>>>>>> [:nh] I'm Huge Harry.
>>>>>>>>> [:nd] I'm Doctor Dennis.
>>>>>>>>> [:nf] I'm Frank.
>>>>>>>>> [:nu] I'm Ursula.
>>>>>>>>> [:nr] I'm Rita.
>>>>>>>>> [:nw] I'm Whispering Wendy.
>>>>>>>>> [:nk] and I'm Kit the Kid.
>>>>>>>>> [:np]
>>>>>>>>> Okay, let's test a few custom voices.
>>>>>>>>> [:nf] [:dv br 0 la 0 sr 100 hr 100 ap 150 pr 95] [:ra 220] This is
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> voice
>>>>>>>>> of Rimmer from Red Dwarf.
>>>>>>>>> Lister, we are being tested! I don't know what to do!
>>>>>>>>> [:nf] [:ra 240] [:dv br 0 hs 95 ap 100 as 100 pr 220 hr 30 sr 30]
>>>>>>>>> This
>>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>> Lister.
>>>>>>>>> Rimmer! Come over here and help me with this new speech 
>>>>>>>>> synthesizer!
>>>>>>>>> [:np] [:dv as 0 bf 0 la 20 nf 00 ri 100 sm 0 hr 0 sr 0] [:ra 220]
>>>>>>>>> This
>>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>> Holly.
>>>>>>>>> This is an important announcement. All persons aboard this ship 
>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> report to the voice calibration office at once. That is all.
>>>>>>>>> [:np] [:dv br 100 lx 100 bf 100 hr 100 sr 100 as 100 qu 100 ap 110
>>>>>>>>> pr
>>>>>>>>> 150
>>>>>>>>> sx
>>>>>>>>> 1 la 0]  [:ra 210] This is the voice of the toaster.
>>>>>>>>> I don't know where this voice calibration office is. Does anyone
>>>>>>>>> want
>>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>>> toast?
>>>>>>>>> [:np] [:dv sm 1 hs 90  br 0 ri 0 la 0] [:ra 250] I'm the cat.
>>>>>>>>> Who says my voice needs to be calibrated? I want fishies!
>>>>>>>>> [:nd] [:dv as 0 bf 0 la 20 nf 00 ri 100 hr 0 sr 0] [:ra 220] I'm
>>>>>>>>> Queeg
>>>>>>>>> 500.
>>>>>>>>> None of you have any credit, so you may not use the voice
>>>>>>>>> calibrator.
>>>>>>>>> [:nu] [:dv as 1 bf 10 la 30 nf 10 ri 100 sm 50 hr 100 sr 20 ap 
>>>>>>>>> 130]
>>>>>>>>> [:ra
>>>>>>>>> 240] I'm the newer voice of Holly.
>>>>>>>>> I'm picking something up. It's another ship. Its name is Deck Talk
>>>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>>> something very close. They have been conducting an experiment on 
>>>>>>>>> us
>>>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>>> time. That would explain why we've been saying all these silly
>>>>>>>>> things.
>>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>>> knew I was having trouble finding a record of any voice 
>>>>>>>>> calibration
>>>>>>>>> office
>>>>>>>>> on Red Dwarf.
>>>>>>>>>
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