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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>I think you are asking how I enhance the files?
Well, to my ears, Dectalk sounds flat, so does every single music file I ever
work with. I have lab software where I can enhance stuff. So first I
add in an ever slight echo to everything. I don't want an actual echo, I
just do it enough so everything sounds more real. It makes Dectalk sound
much more human.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Then I have a set of unmarked controls that greatly
effect the base, travel, and bring out sounds that you can't normally
hear. And this also helps Dectalk sound more human.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Volume drops also help. Volume drops let me
raise or lower the volume of Dectalk which helps create
feeling.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>If we buy the kit, I hope I can have a crack at
changing stuff. I hear all this talk on how hard it is to make a female
voice sound human. Hard nothing, I've done it. So if I can set the
controls in the kit to ever slightly echo without an actual echo, and change a
few settings in the female voices, I know I can make them have human
quality.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>I hope to God they don't only have 5.0 because I for
one can't stand it! But I was told a few years ago that 4.40 was available
as a kit and it comes with instructions and an open dictionary. I'm hoping
to add cool stuff to the dictionary before we release it. I have some way
cool stuff in mind.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>One is, in honor of Dennis Klatt, I want to set it do
if you type "DennisKlatt" as one word, it will tell the history of Dennis
Klatt. I have tones of other ideas I hope to add to the dictionary.
And, I want "Alt P" to play the message, so it's easier for the blind. I
feel like I have 200 items I hope I get to add to the dictionary just to make it
more fun. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>But this is a company thing, so I might not get to add
anything to the dictionary, but I'm hoping I can. In the 90's I use to
type in weird stuff hoping I would stumble on a hidden message from Dennis or
something. I never did. So I'd love to do that stuff just because I
think it would be fun.</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 9/20/2010 8:10:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ratguy@insightbb.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>How does
the enhanced singing work? Just curious.<BR>Jayson<BR><BR>----- Original
Message ----- <BR>From: "ebruckert Bruckert"
<edbruckert@gmail.com><BR>To: "DECtalk Discussions"
<dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><BR>Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 7:27
AM<BR>Subject: [DECtalk] DECtalk SAPI<BR><BR><BR>>
There was previously done a DECtalk SAPI5 that was done years ago.<BR>> I
know nothing of the kit mentioned, but the singing capacbility was put
<BR>> in<BR>> by Dennis Klatt early in. We always kept that capacbility
in it and <BR>> someone<BR>> would have to deliberately shut it off,
which makes no sense to me. The <BR>> only<BR>> chnage was that tthe
phoneme representation chnaged at one point, making<BR>> older song files
not play without corretion. Earlier I mentioned that I<BR>> added an
enhqanced singing capability that we could probably get out<BR>> somehow,
but it signifcantly changes how to program it. If there is<BR>> interewst I
can tell you more about
it.<BR>><BR><BR><BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR><BR>>
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