[DECtalk] dtc01, was: Re: A history question

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Hi,
You can call me stupid or something, but, what, exactly, is a dtc01. I guess 
dt is for dectalk, I just wonder what is the c for.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] A history question


> Hi,
>
> Here's a short recording of my DECtalk DTC01 using firmware 2.0 from July 
> of
> 1984.
> http://q-audio.net/d/18422
> Jayson
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brandon Misch" <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] A history question
>
>
> can you send what you can? or is that recording all that you have and are
> there any recordings of the old dectalks from the 80's besides that 
> record?
>
> On Jan 30, 2011, at 1:45 PM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
>
>> He recorde alot before his voice went. By 1982 it was very different. And
>> I don't have a lot of backups as the medu=iums changed.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> his voice didn't sound that bad from that record about speech systems 
>> from
>> the 30's to the 80's unless that wasn't him.
>>
>> On Jan 30, 2011, at 9:56 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
>>
>>> All the DECtalk voices have been there since 1982. In fact the Dennis
>>> voice was modeled by Dennis Klatt at the time to be his closest match to
>>> his own voice as he could. When I first met him his natural voice was
>>> already deteriorating due to his throat cancer.
>>>
>>> The DTC 01 does try to hear touchstones while at speaking it tries to
>>> cancel out the outgoing sound from the ingoing sound and in old systems
>>> used to work pretty good. Whether changes in telephony have made that
>>> more difficult I don't know.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Okay, this is getting way out there, but when did DECtalk get the eighth
>>> and
>>> ninth voices? I remember hearing a sample of DECtalk in I think it was
>>> Dialogue Magazine on flexible disk. My parents had a copy. I heard the
>>> piece
>>> in 1989, not sure when it was actually done though. At that point,
>>> DECtalk
>>> only had seven voices, from how I understand it. Dennis and Wendy 
>>> weren't
>>> present.
>>> Then in November of 1989 we got our Kurzweil Personal Reader with 
>>> DECtalk
>>> in
>>> it. All nine voices were there, in pretty much the same form they kept
>>> until
>>> Digital became Compaq and Force got hold of DECtalk. I think the version
>>> on
>>> the Kurzweil was something older than 4.0. While the voices sounded a 
>>> lot
>>> alike, there were some pronunciation differences.
>>>
>>> We got our first DECtalk PC running version 4.0 in mid 1993, and our
>>> first
>>> DECtalk Express in mid 1995.
>>>
>>> Over all, I'd have to say my favorite DECtalk version is 4.2CD, the
>>> version
>>> that's running on all our DECtalk Expresses. 4.3 is excellent too, and
>>> it's
>>> all over the place in the DECtalk Archive, thanks to the speak43 program
>>> making the rounds. From what I heard of 4.4 in the demo sent to this 
>>> list
>>> yesterday, it sounds pretty good. I'm not exactly sure what version of
>>> DECtalk Access32 uses, but by then there were a few changes. We got our
>>> copy
>>> of Access32 in mid 1998. In particular, the B sound, as in the words 
>>> bin,
>>> bye, and bag, almost had an extra sound like it was trying to put an r 
>>> in
>>> there. Not quite sure how to describe it.
>>>
>>> I think my least favorite version is 4.61. Don't know if I ever heard
>>> 4.63.
>>> I think 4.64 sounds kind of weird, a bit sluggish or something. From 
>>> what
>>> I
>>> heard of it, I think DECtalk 5 sounded better than 4.64, though not as
>>> good
>>> as the Digital versions.
>>>
>>> On a somewhat related note, a few years ago I purchased a DTC01 on eBay.
>>> It's running DECtalk 2.0 from July 1984, and you can tell it. Not sure
>>> how
>>> many voices it has. It's pretty much just been sitting around collecting
>>> dust, unfortunately. I thought I might use some of its telephone
>>> functionality, but the DTC01 had some limitations I didn't know about
>>> until
>>> I already had it, E.G. can't detect touchtones while speaking, can't
>>> automatically detect hangups, etc. So that never happened.
>>> Jayson
>>>
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