<div>i have laura's email and her mom's, mary, somewhere, and will ask them if they'd like to join this thread - thx to all on for the interesting tidbits!</div>
<div>corine<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Flint Million <<a href="mailto:fmillion@gmail.com">fmillion@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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 href="http://speech.themillionweb.net/" target="_blank">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><br>Flint M<br><br>On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Corine Bickley<br><<a 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>
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