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<big><big>Before it was Klattalk, it was MITtalk. I was having a drink
with Dennis Klatt in San Francisco in May, 1978. I noted that his name
was "talk" spelled backwards (more or less). He claimed not to have
ever recognized that. I was surprised. Shortly after that, he changed
the name of MITtalk to "Klattalk", a palindrome.<br>
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John Eulenberg<br>
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<div><strong><font size="4">Dectalk was originally named Klattalk.
Dennis Klatt, spell it backwards and you get "Talk" so you get
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<div><strong><font size="4">Anyway, I did a "TTS SING" Google search
and found several singing speech engines. I just can't figure out how
to download or buy the software. The samples put Dectalk to shame.</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 3/29/2008 11:22:33 A.M. Pacific Daylight
Time, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fmillion@gmail.com">fmillion@gmail.com</a> writes:</div>
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size="2">Hey, Changed the subject so we're on a new thread. Wow, that's<br>
interesting, never knew that's why Dennis wrote that in. The only<br>
other synth I know of that can sing is MacinTalk on the Macintosh. As<br>
is there were some pre-programmed tunes that were set up as voices in<br>
the voice list. VocalWriter is a tool that harnessed this ability and<br>
offered MIDI-based precise control over the speech synth to allow it<br>
to sing. I've done a lot of work with it at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://speech.themillionweb.net">http://speech.themillionweb.net</a> if you're interested. As for PC-based<br>
and hardware synths, I don't think any other synth has ever had<br>
inherently-coded singing abilities - most other synths have been made<br>
to sing simply by setting to monotone and messing with the pitch and<br>
rate until it kind of sounds decent. DEC-talk still beats them all for<br>
hardware synths. Correct me if I'm wrong bc I'd love to mess with any<br>
other synth designed to sing, but far as I know DEC-talk is the only<br>
hardware-based solution thta can do it!<br>
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Flint M<br>
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Corine Bickley<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu"><corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu></a> wrote:<br>
> just a random question from a dectalk engineer - is it still the
case that<br>
> only dectalk can be programmed (note by note) to sing? i was a
student of<br>
> Dennis Klatt and he would be so pleased to know that people still
enjoy<br>
> using his singing features for dectalk. you all probably know that
dennis<br>
> first incorporated singing controls into dectalk so he could have
his<br>
> synthesizer sing Happy Birthday to his daugher Laura, right?<br>
> corine bickley<br>
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