[DECtalk] eloquence and Chinese

Jayson Smith jaybird at bluegrasspals.com
Sat Sep 26 19:49:57 EDT 2015


Hi,

As list owner/moderator, I'm fine with people talking about things not 
directly related to DECtalk, as long as it somehow relates to the 
general theme. For instance, other speech synths, other singing synths, etc.

Jayson


On 9/26/2015 2:28 PM, Blake Roberts via Dectalk wrote:
> Mike, Sometimes members of this list discuss other speech synthesizers in
> addition to Dectalk. I think it's probably because the list is usually
> low-traffic.
> Blake
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Mike S
> via Dectalk
> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 12:19 PM
> To: DECtalk
> Cc: Mike S
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] eloquence and Chinese
>
> 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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