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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have finished my uploads for the foreseeable
future. There are some songs I did not upload. If anyone's interested in hearing
the songs I did not upload, just email me off-list.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Blake</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ratguy@insightbb.com href="mailto:ratguy@insightbb.com">Jayson
Smith</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk Discussions</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:17
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DECtalk] introducing myself
/ synth singing</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hello,<BR><BR> The three files you
mentioned have been moved to /Talksina in the <BR>DECtalk archive. This
effects the <A href="http://www.bluegrasspals.com">www.bluegrasspals.com</A>
site, and not any <BR>mirrored copies, unless they have made similar changes.
I'm thinking about <BR>ways to make the entire archive available to download
at once, but want to <BR>wait for it to stabilize. Snoopi and Blake, have you
finished all your <BR>uploads? I'm not asking that you hurry up if you
haven't. I'm just saying <BR>that, if you haven't, there's no point in
providing a torrent or suchlike, <BR>since it would quickly become
outdated.<BR>Jayson<BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Talksina"
<<A href="mailto:evvivajaws@libero.it">evvivajaws@libero.it</A>><BR>To:
<<A
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</A>><BR>Sent:
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 6:52 AM<BR>Subject: [DECtalk] introducing myself /
synth singing<BR><BR><BR>><BR>> Hello.<BR>> I am an Italian blind
girl, who loves to make synthesizers sing, I<BR>> answered last week to a
post about making the archive in .torrent<BR>> file (I am interested about
it)<BR>> As I wouldn't like someone to think I am such a lurker or
some<BR>> stranger coming to ruin the list's atmosphere...I love to
make<BR>> synthesizers sing. DecTalk first of all, and also the Italian
one,<BR>> but unfortunately that one sings just my language, there's no way
to<BR>> make it sing in other languages, as in dectalk there is not
ability<BR>> to make it sing italian!<BR>> well, to introduce myself in
the audio way,<BR>> I am the author of this:<BR>> <A
href="http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/blowing.mp3">http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/blowing.mp3</A><BR>>
or this<BR>> <A
href="http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/crash_test_dummies.mp3">http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/crash_test_dummies.mp3</A><BR>>
or this<BR>> <A
href="http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/titanic_soundtrack_by_Jois_from_italy.mp3">http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/titanic_soundtrack_by_Jois_from_italy.mp3</A><BR>>
well, Jois (pronounced as Joys) was my old nickname. Very old, but<BR>> now
I am Talksina in every Internet community.<BR>> It would be nice if those
files could be placed in a directory called<BR>> Talksina, on the archive,
but, tell me if you need me to put the ID3<BR>> tags and send them back, to
make it easier I could put all my DecTalk<BR>> productions on a zip file,
then send it by itself or downloadable via<BR>> link or torrent. But, as I
am leaving for holiday on Saturday,<BR>> coming back the 1st of
September, we'll talk about it in that date.<BR>> Well. Making synthesizers
sing, has always been my passion since<BR>> 2000, and started playing with
DecTalk.<BR>> But unfortunately, I found no Italian-speaking singing synth.
As<BR>> English is not my mother language, the effort for me is double as
I<BR>> must, first of all hear the song's words, then, get the lyrics
from<BR>> Internet and of course the music in Midi or karaoke version.
Then,<BR>> try to find the right pronunciation with phonemes, sometimes I
make<BR>> horrible mistakes, as I am terribly influenced by my Italian
accent,<BR>> such as writing the word "windows" in phonetic alphabet
instead of<BR>> "wixndowz" I wrote "wiyndows". ARGH! So, if I get a
non-English<BR>> pronunciation with English voice,the sound is rediculous.
So, the<BR>> right way I found, is to make DecTalk read the word as it is,
and<BR>> find out the phonemes that match the correct
pronunciation.<BR>> That's why I am making it sing lesser and lesser, I
need such an<BR>> amount of time!<BR>> In 2003 I discovered that my
licensed Italian Loquendo robotic male<BR>> and female voices could sing, I
was just playing with a TTS, made a<BR>> mistake and the 2 words just
sounded with different music notes. It<BR>> looked really as it was
singing. And that was!<BR>> So I started enjoying myself making songs and
tests<BR>> and, the best thing of this synth is that it doesn't need to
convert<BR>> the audio file into mp3 or wav to try if the sound is good, if
there<BR>> are mistakes, it can directly speak, it's sapi5 compliant and
works<BR>> with any TTS-driven software that support synth-specific
commands.<BR>> a sample (italian song) here, just to make you hear what I
am talking <BR>> about.<BR>> <A
href="http://www.audiomontaggi.net/erfinestra/cremonini_demo.mp3">http://www.audiomontaggi.net/erfinestra/cremonini_demo.mp3</A><BR>>
The trouble of this synth is that unlike DecTalk, it has no specific<BR>>
adjustable parameters to make it sing, you adjust silence with<BR>>
punctuation marks and writing a letter as many times as you wish
the<BR>> sound to be long. So, counting that a letter is about 200<BR>>
milliseconds, you must calculate how many milliseconds are needed to<BR>>
match whatever note in a music file, to syncronize voice and music.<BR>>
And if nothing fits, you must play with voice rate parameter<BR>> OK... bye
ciao.<BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>>
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