[DECtalk] Dectalk first generation

[Blake Roberts]

Tony,
Are the MITalk/KlatTalk recordings you shared from the speech synthesis
collection created by Dennis Klat? They sound familiar to my ears.
When I  shared the first generation dectalk.mp3 audio, I was not aware  that
the first generation file was a prank.
Blake

-----Original Message-----
From: Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Tony
Morales
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 7:47 PM
To: DECtalk
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Dectalk first generation

The early DECtalk did not sound that terrible. The MIT MITalk system from
1979 is recognizable in this recording as the DECtalk ancestor it is:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/rhythmsp/ASA/AUfiles/30.AU

The Klattalk system from 1983 was the immediate predecessor of DECtalk and
is indistinguishable from the early DECtalk as can be heard in this
recording:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/rhythmsp/ASA/AUfiles/33.AU

Thanks,

Tony



> On Oct 31, 2017, at 4:09 PM, Jake Gross <datajake at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> About that recording. I emailed Patrick Perdue several months ago
> about that because that recording was part of a 7z archive of
> productions he has. The first generation DECtalk  was actually a
> prank. He used a DECtalk express, compressed the recording with lpc,
> and used manual stressing and incorrect phonemes
> Speaking of old versions of DECtalk, I was able to get DECtalk 1.8 and
> DECtalk 2.0 running in the mame emulator.
> I uploaded an archive that contains mame and the DECtalk rom.
> http://grossgang.com/utilities/mame0184b_64bit.7z
> To start the emulator, open a command prompt and open the directory
> where mame was extracted.
> Type mame64 dectalk and press enter to start DECtalk 2.0. To start the
> emulator with DECtalk 1.8, type mame64 dectalk -bios 1.
> You will have to press enter twice after you execute the command. If
> all goes well, you should here the DECtalk startup message. To have
> DECtalk speak your own text, just type your text and press enter
> twice.
> 
> On 10/31/17, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> On Jake Gross's AnyAudio page, I found a recording of the Dectalk first
>> generation. I am sharing the MP3 for anyone who has not heard the
recording
>> before. As the attached recording says, Dectalk was still in development
in
>> 1979. Compared to later versions of Dectalk, the first generation Dectalk
>> definitely sounds different.
>> 
>> Blake
>> 
>> 
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