[DECtalk] Sample text

Brandon Misch bmisch2002 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 21:06:18 EST 2011


glad i could provide that for you guys. 

On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:37 PM, <johnnybrl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Brandon, I just heard the demo and it sounds really good! And yep Paul does sounds almost like Dectalk 4.3. But some of the other voices sounds like the ones from 4.6.4. But overall they sound pretty good.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brandon Misch
> To: DECtalk Discussions
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 7:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Sample text
> 
> ok this worked. thanks. i sent a dectalk usb sample to Jason so he should get that sent here at some point. 
> 
> On Feb 11, 2011, at 10:00 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
> 
>> Here you go
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey this works. i don't have the dectalk demo but as weird but it sounds like system access can make the voices sound like they do with the normal red dwarf files. I don't even have the demo and the screen reader makes dectalk change the voices as if it was the demo. but it works.
>> 
>> 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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