[DECtalk] Another example
Jayson Smith
ratguy at insightbb.com
Thu May 5 08:21:37 EDT 2011
Hi,
I'm seeing a bit of different behavior. Last night I was sent a copy of the
Speak window. I ran my version of "Bicycle Built for Two" through it. It
sang the first line, "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do." okay. For the
rest of the song, it whispered the words, and of course wasn't singing. Many
people, not listening very closely, might not even hear the whispering. If
you want to see what yours is doing, make a recording of it, go into an
audio editor, then normalize the file starting from when the singing stops.
Jayson
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Another example
> Oh God, singing. Get this guys. The all knowing programmer asked Blake
> and I how you get Dectalk to sing. So we sent a file to this person.
> That
> was when we got told that we didn't know what we were doing. We're being
> told that [_<500>] is not how you do a rest. Uh, what manual is this
> person
> reading?
>
> Anyway, the SAPI won't sing past the first line of a song. There is no
> error message, nothing, it just stops after like the fifth word. We are
> told
> it's us, we are doing things wrong. Uh, no we're not!
>
> I'm tired of being told we don't know what we are talking about.
>
>
> SNOOPI BOTTEN
>
>
> In a message dated 5/5/2011 12:49:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> johnnybrl at gmail.com writes:
>
> hi Alex, I don't mind the Paul voice either. Even Frank sounds pretty
> nice.
> but the other voices like the females need a bit more work I think.
>
> Is it possible to make a recording of it singing so we can here what it
> sounds like when it sings?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex H." <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 7:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Another example
>
>
>>I guess I don't mind the new Paul voice of this supposed 4.3 version,
>> but it's just not 4.3, at all. That said, maybe the programmer got
>> confused and put 4.67 in there instead, that would make more sense as
>> this started getting into the FonixTalk era that would follow. I don't
>> know. Something just sounds broken/not compatible with it.
>>
>> On 5/4/11, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> hey this wasn't that bad. kind of fading in and out but could still
> hear
>>> the
>>> whole thing. Happened mostly with betty but it still sounded great.
>>>
>>> On May 4, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Blake sent me the Speak window. I used it, as well as the beloved
>>>> speak43
>>>> application, to synthesize the exact same text. This is a conversation
>>>> which
>>>> came from a website called "Computer Stupidities" which I have turned
>>>> into
>>>> a
>>>> DECtalk skit. Here, Paul is the store salesperson, and Betty is the
>>>> customer. Certain words have been intentionally misspelled so as to be
>>>> pronounced correctly. I have created a zip file of the two wavs which
>>>> resulted from the synthesis. This zip is at
>>>> http://www.bluegrasspals.com/jazz.zip
>>>> I'm sure you'll be able to tell the difference. Here is the exact text
>>>> synthesized by both versions.
>>>> Jayson
>>>>
>>>> [:np] [:ra 240]
>>>> I work in the entertainment department of a huge store. I was
> restocking
>>>> CD
>>>> Ars when a middle-aged woman came up to me.
>>>>
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "Excuse me, but what is in those colorful boxes? I'm looking for toys
> as
>>>> a
>>>>
>>>> present for my nephew, and I just know he'd like a colorful box like
>>>> that."
>>>> [:np]
>>>> "Well, the toy department is upstairs, but"
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "...and in case they're jack-in-the-boxes, could I get one custom
>>>> made,
>>>> because I bet you don't have the color combination I'd like anyway."
>>>> [:np]
>>>> "They're...not jack-in-the-boxes, ma'am. They are c deaz."
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "Oh! Kind of a big box for a CD. Does it come with lots of leaflets,
> or
>>>> is
>>>>
>>>> it just air? I hate that way of--"
>>>> [:np]
>>>> "No, no, no, you see, there's ten c deaz in one box."
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "Ten! Oh my goodness, that's a lot of c deaz. What kind c deaz are
>>>> they?"
>>>> [:np]
>>>> "Well, we have CD ars in these, and CD ar double yous over here. These
>>>> ones
>>>> are scratchproof, so they cost a little more--"
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "Oh, I don't know about these modern things so much. Have you got any
>>>> jazz?"
>>>> [:np]
>>>> "Excuse me?"
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "See, an old person like myself, I haven't even heard of scratchproof
>>>> music
>>>> before. I like jazz."
>>>>
>>>> [:np]
>>>> I tried to hold my poker face for every cent of my hourly wage.
>>>>
>>>> "No, these c deaz are empty. We have jazz over there"
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "Yes, I was over there, and there was nothing new. I already have them
>>>> all
>>>>
>>>> at home. But do you have any jazz in these bulk boxes?"
>>>> [:np]
>>>> "No, ma'am, I'm afraid we're all sold out of the jazz ones."
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "Well. this box is $8.99, and at the jazz section I'd pay more for
> only
>>>> one
>>>> CD!"
>>>> [:np]
>>>> "That's true, but these are empty, as I--"
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "This is a pretty good deal, ten c deaz for less than a tenner!"
>>>> [:np]
>>>> "Undoubtedly, but--"
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "I'll take this!"
>>>> [:np]
>>>> "Ma'am, the c deaz are empty. You won't hear anything."
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "Oh?"
>>>> [:np]
>>>> "I buy these myself all the time, and there's nothing on them."
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "Maybe your volume wasn't loud enough. Or you had unplugged your
>>>> speakers?"
>>>>
>>>> [:np]
>>>> When had she become tech support to me?
>>>>
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "I'll buy these. This is very cheap. You are a good salesperson!"
>>>> [:np]
>>>> "Thank you, ma'am, but--"
>>>> [:nb]
>>>> "I'll just have to see if my nephew listens to scratchproof."
>>>>
>>>> [:np]
>>>> I took a long, long break after that one.
>>>>
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