[DECtalk] interesting discovery

[Carlos Fernandez]

I currently haven't taken much more than a cursory glance at the singing 
mechanism. You can find the instructions for the U.S. national anthem in 
the sing.bat file, however, and use this to create new songs.

Carlos
On 5/23/2014 16:49, Green Gables Fan wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
> Interesting you brought this up, because I was curious on how to make 
> other speech synthesisers sing. So far, I distributed a quick 
> demonstration for eloquence, Orpheus, and now Vocaloid. However, I 
> know that Microsoft Mary can sing. How about Willow Pond? There are a 
> couple of speech synthesisers that I cannot identify. One was singing 
> Frair jacque in the key of B-flat Major with counterpoint rounds. It 
> certainly wasn't DECtalk. Then there was another one that was singing 
> TBRN. If you want links to the stuff I can upload them. They should be 
> in the archive though.
> Also, how do you make SAM sing, or is this just like Orpheus? I'll 
> definitely take a look O:-)
> On 23/05/2014 13:43, Carlos Fernandez wrote:
>> I was looking around for those old synth demos (if anyone has them, 
>> please let me know) and found some recordings from the SAM 
>> synthesizer that predates dectalk by about two years. It is 
>> interesting because, not only is it an old software synth, but I 
>> caught it singing. I have placed these files in the synthesizers 
>> folder in the BTSync share. But, more interesting is that SAM has 
>> been recoded in C for windows systems, so you can make it speak, 
>> sing, and all sorts of interesting things. I have placed it in the 
>> software folder in the BTSync share. Have fun.
>>
>> Carlos
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