[DECtalk] eloquence and Chinese

Mike S underthetoaster at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 12:19:23 EDT 2015


And how does this pertain to DecTalk again?


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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