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<DIV><FONT size=2>Is it just with the rests, or is it with every phoneme? If
it's with every phoneme, it could cause problems. However I suspect that this is
not a problem with phonemes, because sometimes I'd make a song and have to put
an extra note in there and everything would stay in sync. Since I have a whole
bunch of time now I will test it and let you know how it turns out. Thanks for
the information about the rests, it finally answers the question why one of my
works had two voices going out of sync. Now I know the answer! I also learned
long ago that you can not put two phonemes together, say duw. Instead they have
to be seperated and otherwise it'll go all out of sync. I am not going to even
try having background music, because I know it's going to be harder then having
two voices with there own parts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 29, 2006 11:36
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DECtalk] Getting Dectalk To
Sing Independent Vocal Parts</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Hi Raymond, I'm snoopi and I program Dectalk to sing
for a living. I just release a new CD on December 3rd and a demo can be
heard on <A href="http://www.dectalksings.com">www.dectalksings.com</A>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Your question has a simple answer. With each
voice you are using, the speech rate kind of has to be all the same. I
say kind of because it's weird!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Like I did the song "Dream" in 2 part
harmony. it's been a few years, but if I
remember right, the speech rates for each voice had to be adjusted. One
would think you would just set the two rates the same, but I'm remembering
there was something really strange that I had to do but I can't remember
what.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>I can say that there is a bug in the rest commands
of every version of Dectalk. Lets say you put in [_<2000>] for a
rest. In actuality, the rest will end up being 1800 milliseconds long
instead of the full 2000. And the longer you want the rest the more time
is cut short from it. I have this problem all the time and I think it's
just a Dectalk bug.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>I'm thinking you may have to make slight adjustments
in some of your rests to get everything in sync. I hate programming
duets for that reason, it's not a cut and dry thing. The speech rates
need to match, yet the rests need to be slightly different. Like if a
voice keeps falling behind, try adding 25 or 50 on to the rest values. I
know it feels wrong, it looks wrong, but it comes out right. Don't ask
me why. That bug makes me crazy all the time!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>By the way, Jason, if you are reading, I want to
upgrade my files on Bluegrass but I'm locked out. I finally solved all
my problems so my files now sound more professional. I actually want to
dump everything on Bluegrass and start fresh. The problem was, I wasn't
rendering. I didn't even know about rendering until 2 months ago.
I knew about video rendering, but not audio cleaning or rendering.
That's why most of my files on Bluegrass sound bad. I got things fine
now.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>SNOOPI BOTTEN </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 12/29/2006 4:14:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ratguy@bellsouth.net writes:</DIV>
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size=2>Hi,<BR>If each note of each voice is the same length, then they
shouldn't get out<BR>of sync. Are you using the "Convert to Wav"
feature? Have you visited the<BR>DECtalk archive?
http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk<BR>If you haven't already, visit the
Software directory and download DECtalk<BR>4.3. This version can
convert its output to wav files which you can then<BR>mix in a sound editor
or multi-track studio program. The newer demo<BR>versions say they
have this feature but it is unavailable for some
reason.<BR>Jayson.<BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Raymond
Grote" <musicalman1@comcast.net><BR>To:
<dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><BR>Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 1:08
AM<BR>Subject: [DECtalk] Getting Dectalk To Sing Independent Vocal
Parts<BR><BR><BR>Hi everyone, my name is Raymond and I am very interested in
speech<BR>synthesis. I never knew they could actually sing until about a
year ago. I<BR>have downloaded Dectalk a few months ago and I was trying to
get four<BR>voices, singing all different parts, with different lyrix, sort
of like each<BR>section of a chorus has its own part. I wanted to check here
to make sure I<BR>was correct. If one beat equals 600ms, then just as long
as each beat of<BR>each part was 600ms, nothing would go out of sync? I know
that was a bit<BR>confusing, but I guess the basic rule of thumb is that
each note can be any<BR>length, just as long as each beat equaled the same
number of ms? If this is<BR>not right, then what is the secret to making
several voices, each with its<BR>own lyrix and rhythm, but keeping them in
sync?<BR><BR>Hope everyone has a Happy New
Year!<BR><BR>Raymond<BR><BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>----<BR><BR><BR>>
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