[DECtalk] eloquence and Chinese

Jake Gross datajake at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 14:10:16 EDT 2015


I submited a ticket to code factory some time ago asking why chinese,
japanese, and korean were removed from the sapi5 version of eloquence.
http://www.codefactory.cat/helpdesk/ticket.php?track=7QA-ASN-YH9Z&Refresh=89800
Jake

On 9/26/15, Mike S via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 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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