[DECtalk] the cause of electronic beeps in dectalk?

[Carlos Fernandez]

I will begin work today. It may take some time.

Carlos
On 5/24/2015 12:23, Edward Bruckert via Dectalk wrote:
> U would love it. It does a bad job so many things wrong I won’t go into it now.
> On May 24, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Carlos Fernandez via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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>> I assume you dislike the voices available on OS X for voiceOver. If you would like, I could allow dectalk to function with voiceOver. The system has precedent, but is not yet written. Would you like me to create this system? Also, what problems do you have with the macintalk system now?
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>> Carlos
>> On 5/24/2015 08:14, Edward Bruckert via Dectalk wrote:
>>> The limit cycles can not ne stopped or predicted they don not always occur.
>>> OI xan up with a method ro reduce them by estimating the time delay ro “silence” can them force the to zero otherwise they would continue forever,
>>> Thanks tom I’m still ticking\my big frustration is the text pre-processing ob apples voice is terrible
>>> but I do not think anyone cares,
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>>> On May 23, 2015, at 9:19 PM, Alex H. via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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>>>> It depends on the vowels at the end of words, sorta. It also seems
>>>> random. As other have stated, it's a math miscalculation. The newer
>>>> versions 4.61 etc) don't do this to my knowledge.
>>>>
>>>> Alex
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>>>> On 5/23/15, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>> Although I wonder why it's not a fixed beep, the pitch changes and
>>>>> something I don't hear it at all.
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>>>>> On 05/23/15 05:04 PM, Tom Kopec via Dectalk wrote:
>>>>>> DECtalk software or hardware?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ed is right, the fixed-point math can result in a +- 1 bit
>>>>>> oscillation.. though I admit I never noticed it when I was working
>>>>>> with DECtalk back in the 1990s (if I did, I would have fixed it!)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good to hear from you Ed as well.. hope things are going as well as
>>>>>> then can..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...tom
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> On 5/23/2015 12:00 PM, dectalk-request at bluegrasspals.com wrote:
>>>>>>> Message: 1
>>>>>>> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 17:46:13 -0400
>>>>>>> From: Mohamed <malhajamy at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> To: DECtalk <Dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>>>>> Subject: [DECtalk] the cause of electronic beeps in dectalk?
>>>>>>> Message-ID: <555FA3A5.7030200 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi guys, so, I'm wondering. What exactly causes the faint electronic
>>>>>>> beeps at the end of phrases in dectalk?
>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Message: 2
>>>>>>> Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 06:22:54 -0400
>>>>>>> From: Edward Bruckert <edbruckert at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> To: DECtalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] the cause of electronic beeps in dectalk?
>>>>>>> Message-ID: <18FCA6D6-CEDF-40F0-9C89-54D7935097CC at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> what your hearing is valled a limit cycle. The filters can sometimes
>>>>>>> when feed with zeros oscillate in the low order
>>>>>>> bits in fixed point arithmetric. Ps I an now blind myself.
>>>>>>>
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