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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Yup, I think 2.0 came free with a program called
"Ancella". It was a voice mail program that ran on Windows 3.1 and used
Dectalk to do all the menus.</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 1/30/2011 7:51:26 P.M. Eastern Standard 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>Hi,<BR><BR>Here's a short recording of my DECtalk DTC01 using
firmware 2.0 from July of
<BR>1984.<BR>http://q-audio.net/d/18422<BR>Jayson<BR><BR>----- Original
Message ----- <BR>From: "Brandon Misch" <bmisch2002@gmail.com><BR>To:
"DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><BR>Sent: Sunday,
January 30, 2011 1:56 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] A history
question<BR><BR><BR>can you send what you can? or is that recording all that
you have and are <BR>there any recordings of the old dectalks from the 80's
besides that record?<BR><BR>On Jan 30, 2011, at 1:45 PM, ebruckert Bruckert
wrote:<BR><BR>> He recorde alot before his voice went. By 1982 it was very
different. And <BR>> I don't have a lot of backups as the medu=iums
changed.<BR>><BR>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Brandon Misch
<bmisch2002@gmail.com> <BR>> wrote:<BR>> his voice didn't sound
that bad from that record about speech systems from <BR>> the 30's to the
80's unless that wasn't him.<BR>><BR>> On Jan 30, 2011, at 9:56 AM,
ebruckert Bruckert wrote:<BR>><BR>>> All the DECtalk voices have been
there since 1982. In fact the Dennis <BR>>> voice was modeled by Dennis
Klatt at the time to be his closest match to <BR>>> his own voice as he
could. When I first met him his natural voice was <BR>>> already
deteriorating due to his throat cancer.<BR>>><BR>>> The DTC 01
does try to hear touchstones while at speaking it tries to <BR>>> cancel
out the outgoing sound from the ingoing sound and in old systems <BR>>>
used to work pretty good. Whether changes in telephony have made that
<BR>>> more difficult I don't know.<BR>>><BR>>> On Sun, Jan
30, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Jayson Smith <ratguy@insightbb.com> <BR>>>
wrote:<BR>>> Hi,<BR>>><BR>>> Okay, this is getting way out
there, but when did DECtalk get the eighth <BR>>> and<BR>>> ninth
voices? I remember hearing a sample of DECtalk in I think it was<BR>>>
Dialogue Magazine on flexible disk. My parents had a copy. I heard the
<BR>>> piece<BR>>> in 1989, not sure when it was actually done
though. At that point, <BR>>> DECtalk<BR>>> only had seven voices,
from how I understand it. Dennis and Wendy weren't<BR>>>
present.<BR>>> Then in November of 1989 we got our Kurzweil Personal
Reader with DECtalk <BR>>> in<BR>>> it. All nine voices were
there, in pretty much the same form they kept <BR>>> until<BR>>>
Digital became Compaq and Force got hold of DECtalk. I think the version
<BR>>> on<BR>>> the Kurzweil was something older than 4.0. While
the voices sounded a lot<BR>>> alike, there were some pronunciation
differences.<BR>>><BR>>> We got our first DECtalk PC running
version 4.0 in mid 1993, and our <BR>>> first<BR>>> DECtalk
Express in mid 1995.<BR>>><BR>>> Over all, I'd have to say my
favorite DECtalk version is 4.2CD, the <BR>>> version<BR>>> that's
running on all our DECtalk Expresses. 4.3 is excellent too, and <BR>>>
it's<BR>>> all over the place in the DECtalk Archive, thanks to the
speak43 program<BR>>> making the rounds. From what I heard of 4.4 in the
demo sent to this list<BR>>> yesterday, it sounds pretty good. I'm not
exactly sure what version of<BR>>> DECtalk Access32 uses, but by then
there were a few changes. We got our <BR>>> copy<BR>>> of Access32
in mid 1998. In particular, the B sound, as in the words bin,<BR>>> bye,
and bag, almost had an extra sound like it was trying to put an r
in<BR>>> there. Not quite sure how to describe
it.<BR>>><BR>>> I think my least favorite version is 4.61. Don't
know if I ever heard <BR>>> 4.63.<BR>>> I think 4.64 sounds kind
of weird, a bit sluggish or something. From what <BR>>> I<BR>>>
heard of it, I think DECtalk 5 sounded better than 4.64, though not as
<BR>>> good<BR>>> as the Digital versions.<BR>>><BR>>>
On a somewhat related note, a few years ago I purchased a DTC01 on
eBay.<BR>>> It's running DECtalk 2.0 from July 1984, and you can tell
it. Not sure <BR>>> how<BR>>> many voices it has. It's pretty much
just been sitting around collecting<BR>>> dust, unfortunately. I thought
I might use some of its telephone<BR>>> functionality, but the DTC01 had
some limitations I didn't know about <BR>>> until<BR>>> I already
had it, E.G. can't detect touchtones while speaking, can't<BR>>>
automatically detect hangups, etc. So that never happened.<BR>>>
Jayson<BR>>><BR>>>
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