<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">can you provide samples of it? <div><br><div><div>On Jan 30, 2011, at 9:07 PM, <a href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com">Dectalk@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><strong><font size="4">I have 5.0 but I promised never to give it out,
sorry. I will say it's bad.</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 8:52:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
<a href="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com">bmisch2002@gmail.com</a> writes:</div>
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someone has a version of it. <br><br>On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:38 PM, Jayson Smith
wrote:<br><br>> I don't think there was ever a 5.0 demo at GW. I'm
surprised nobody seems to <br>> have a copy of it laying around.<br>>
Jayson<br>> <br>> ----- Original Message ----- <br>> From: "Brandon
Misch" <<a href="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com">bmisch2002@gmail.com</a>><br>> To: "DECtalk Discussions"
<<a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a>><br>> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 8:36
PM<br>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] A history question<br>> <br>>
<br>>> wasn't that the demo that used to be on gw's site? if it was,
it's now <br>>> found at <a href="http://dectalk.com">dectalk.com</a><br>>> <br>>> On Jan 30,
2011, at 8:28 PM, Alex H. wrote:<br>>> <br>>>> I only wish I
could grab DT 5.0, I then would have all the demo<br>>>> programs. :(
but it's just tantelizingly too late. Fonix used to have<br>>>> the
demos on the old website.<br>>>> <br>>>>
alex<br>>>> <br>>>> On 1/30/11, Brandon Misch
<<a href="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com">bmisch2002@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>>> if you want to hear a
reading edge machine, you can find a podcast of <br>>>>>
that<br>>>>> over at <a href="http://blindcooltech.com">blindcooltech.com</a> i bring this up because
that had dectalk 4.0<br>>>>> <br>>>>> On Jan 30, 2011,
at 5:22 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:<br>>>>> <br>>>>>>
I think the record Ed refers to is a collection of speech
synthesis<br>>>>>> demonstrations that Dennis put together. He
provided brief narration<br>>>>>>
before<br>>>>>> each demoSomeone converted that record to an
old sound format (.au). I<br>>>>>>
think<br>>>>>> it's on <a href="http://dectalk.com">dectalk.com</a> somewhere. I took the .au
version, converted to <br>>>>>> mp3,<br>>>>>>
changed the file name and listed Dennis Klatt as the artist. If
anyone<br>>>>>> would<br>>>>>> like to hear the
mp3 version of Dennis's record, write me off-list.<br>>>>>>
<br>>>>>> Like Brandon, I would love to hear any other
recordings of Dennis that<br>>>>>> exist, or recordings of
older Dectalks.<br>>>>>> Blake<br>>>>>>
<br>>>>>> -----Original Message-----<br>>>>>>
From: <a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a><br>>>>>>
[mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Brandon
Misch<br>>>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:56
PM<br>>>>>> To: DECtalk Discussions<br>>>>>>
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] A history question<br>>>>>>
<br>>>>>> can you send what you can? or is that recording all
that you have and <br>>>>>> are<br>>>>>> there
any recordings of the old dectalks from the 80's besides
that<br>>>>>> record?<br>>>>>>
<br>>>>>> On Jan 30, 2011, at 1:45 PM, ebruckert Bruckert
wrote:<br>>>>>> <br>>>>>>
<br>>>>>> He recorde alot before his voice went. By 1982 it was
very<br>>>>>> different. And I don't have a lot of backups as
the medu=iums changed.<br>>>>>> <br>>>>>>
<br>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Brandon
Misch<br>>>>>> <<a href="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com">bmisch2002@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>>>>>> <br>>>>>>
<br>>>>>> his voice didn't sound that bad from that record
about<br>>>>>> speech systems from 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>>>>>> <br>>>>>> All the DECtalk voices have
been there since 1982.<br>>>>>> In fact the Dennis voice was
modeled by Dennis Klatt at the time to be <br>>>>>>
his<br>>>>>> closest match to his own voice as he could. When I
first met him his<br>>>>>> natural<br>>>>>>
voice was already deteriorating due to his throat
cancer.<br>>>>>> <br>>>>>> The DTC 01 does try
to hear touchstones while at<br>>>>>> speaking it tries to
cancel out the outgoing sound from the ingoing <br>>>>>>
sound<br>>>>>> and in old systems used to work pretty good.
Whether changes in <br>>>>>> telephony<br>>>>>>
have made that more difficult I don't know.<br>>>>>>
<br>>>>>> <br>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:58
AM, Jayson Smith<br>>>>>> <<a href="mailto:ratguy@insightbb.com">ratguy@insightbb.com</a>>
wrote:<br>>>>>> <br>>>>>>
<br>>>>>> Hi,<br>>>>>> <br>>>>>>
Okay, this is getting way out there, but<br>>>>>> when did
DECtalk get the eighth and<br>>>>>> ninth voices? I remember
hearing a sample of<br>>>>>> DECtalk in I think it
was<br>>>>>> Dialogue Magazine on flexible disk.
My<br>>>>>> parents had a copy. I heard the
piece<br>>>>>> in 1989, not sure when it was actually
done<br>>>>>> though. At that point,
DECtalk<br>>>>>> only had seven voices, from how I
understand<br>>>>>> it. Dennis and Wendy
weren't<br>>>>>> present.<br>>>>>> Then in
November of 1989 we got our Kurzweil<br>>>>>> Personal Reader
with DECtalk in<br>>>>>> it. All nine voices were there, in
pretty<br>>>>>> much the same form they kept
until<br>>>>>> Digital became Compaq and Force got hold
of<br>>>>>> DECtalk. I think the version
on<br>>>>>> the Kurzweil was something older than
4.0.<br>>>>>> While the voices sounded a
lot<br>>>>>> alike, there were some
pronunciation<br>>>>>> differences.<br>>>>>>
<br>>>>>> We got our first DECtalk PC running
version<br>>>>>> 4.0 in mid 1993, and our
first<br>>>>>> DECtalk Express in mid
1995.<br>>>>>> <br>>>>>> Over all, I'd have to
say my favorite<br>>>>>> DECtalk version is 4.2CD, the
version<br>>>>>> that's running on all our DECtalk
Expresses.<br>>>>>> 4.3 is excellent too, and
it's<br>>>>>> all over the place in the DECtalk
Archive,<br>>>>>> thanks to the speak43
program<br>>>>>> making the rounds. From what I heard of
4.4<br>>>>>> in the demo sent to this
list<br>>>>>> yesterday, it sounds pretty good. I'm
not<br>>>>>> exactly sure what version
of<br>>>>>> DECtalk Access32 uses, but by then
there<br>>>>>> were a few changes. We got our
copy<br>>>>>> of Access32 in mid 1998. In particular,
the<br>>>>>> B sound, as in the words
bin,<br>>>>>> bye, and bag, almost had an extra sound
like<br>>>>>> 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.<br>>>>>> Don't know if I ever heard
4.63.<br>>>>>> I think 4.64 sounds kind of weird, a
bit<br>>>>>> sluggish or something. From what
I<br>>>>>> heard of it, I think DECtalk 5
sounded<br>>>>>> better than 4.64, though not as
good<br>>>>>> as the Digital versions.<br>>>>>>
<br>>>>>> On a somewhat related note, a few years
ago<br>>>>>> I purchased a DTC01 on
eBay.<br>>>>>> It's running DECtalk 2.0 from July 1984,
and<br>>>>>> you can tell it. Not sure
how<br>>>>>> many voices it has. It's pretty much
just<br>>>>>> been sitting around
collecting<br>>>>>> dust, unfortunately. I thought I might
use<br>>>>>> some of its telephone<br>>>>>>
functionality, but the DTC01 had some<br>>>>>> limitations I
didn't know about until<br>>>>>> I already had it, E.G. can't
detect<br>>>>>> touchtones while speaking,
can't<br>>>>>> automatically detect hangups, etc. So
that<br>>>>>> never happened.<br>>>>>>
Jayson<br>>>>>> <br>>>>>>
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