[DECtalk] eloquence and Chinese

[brandon T]

Hi,

The At Guys version used to include the Japanese, Chinese and Korean voices.

However, I contacted them about a previous version being on the site,
and after getting in touch with Code Factory, they must have given AT
Guys the latest one recently.

As for why Computer Room Services still has those 3 additional
languages, the file just hasn't been updated.

As for why Code Factory removed them, I recommend sending an email to
Code Factory at:
support at codefactory.es
as they will probably be able to provide a better explanation of this.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Thanks,

Brandon

On 9/25/15, Miguel Villagomez via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Hi. Yes, I know what you're talking about. The Japanese and Korean versions
> of Eloquence have a similar problem. I honestly don't know why that is. I
> also don't know why the Computer Room version of SAPI5 Eloquence has those
> languages included, while the AT-Guys and CF versions do not, even though
> oddly enough the AT-Guys product description says it has those languages.
> It's all very confusing for anyone who wants to buy this synth.
> On Sep 25, 2015 11:41 AM, "Carlos Fernandez via Dectalk" <
> dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>
>> As your resident Chinese speaker, I figured I'd inform you about a
>> strange
>> problem with the Chinese eloquence sapi5 from code factory. I recently
>> tried the 7-day trial from code factory, and I found that only the
>> computer
>> room version contains the Asian languages--the version you can get
>> directly
>> from code factory does not have them. Anyway, the Mandarin Chinese
>> version
>> adds a short Close front unrounded vowel, basically what would be
>> considered a long E in English or an I in most other languages. It is not
>> short enough to form a consonant Y, but it sort of sounds like that. So,
>> if
>> you try to pass the character ai through the synth, you get what sounds
>> basically like yai out instead. This happens to every single character,
>> and
>> makes using this as a Chinese synthesizer exceedingly irritating. I
>> wasn't
>> going to buy it anyway, as I don't care that much about eloquence, but
>> this
>> makes me even less likely to do so.
>>
>> Carlos
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