<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">i can't wait to hear the results. <div><br><div><div>On May 4, 2011, at 11:15 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">All that means is what you are sent is not acceptable don't worry it'll be solved I promise at this point in my life I need it as much as anybody else<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:48 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com">Dectalk@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>In a message dated 5/4/2011 9:10:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, <a href="mailto:ratguy@insightbb.com" target="_blank">ratguy@insightbb.com</a> 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 sample text. I assume you can use DECtalk commands in the text? An <br>
MP3 of the 4.3 speak application performing this exact text can be found at<br><a href="http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dt43sample.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dt43sample.mp3</a><br>Now here's the text.<br>
<br>[:phoneme on]<br>[:np] [:ra 250]<br>Hello. This is the factory default Paul voice.<br>I'm talking now with this voice since this is what most people are probably <br>going to be using. Let's speed it up a bit.<br>
[:ra 300]<br>This is probably how Jayson's JFW would talk normally. Now let's put some <br>intonation in there.<br>[:dv pr 250] [:dv sr 50]<br>Okay, this is how Jayson used to listen to DECtalk back in the good old DOS <br>
days. With 4.3 and earlier, if you could get used to this which you would <br>over time, this sounds pretty good! It'd take some getting used to again, <br>not having had it for so long.<br>[:np] [:ra 250]<br>The rest of this demo was created a few months ago to compair and test the <br>
various other factory voices and several custom voices in different DECtalk <br>versions.<br>I will now test the other voices.<br>[:nb] I'm Beautiful Betty, the default female voice.<br>[:nh] I'm Huge Harry.<br>[:nd] I'm Doctor Dennis.<br>
[:nf] I'm Frail Frank.<br>[:nu] I'm Uppity Ursula.<br>[:nr] I'm Rough Rita.<br>[:nw] I'm Whispering Wendy.<br>[:nk] and I'm Kit the Kid.<br>[:np]<br>Now I'll let the DECtalk manual describe us.<br>
[:np] Perfect Paul Standard male voice.<br>[:nb] Beautiful Betty Standard female voice.<br>[:nh] Huge Harry Deep male voice.<br>[:nf] Frail Frank Older male voice.<br>[:nk] Kit the Kid Child's voice (about 10 years<br>
old).<br>[:nr] Rough Rita Deep female voice.<br>[:nu] Uppity Ursula Light female voice.<br>[:nd] Doctor Dennis Breathy male voice.<br>[:nw] Whispering Wendy Whispery female voice.<br><br>[:np]<br>
Okay, let's test a few custom voices.<br>[:nf] [:dv br 0 la 0 sr 100 hr 100 ap 150 pr 95] [:ra 220] This is the voice <br>of Rimmer from Red Dwarf.<br>Lister, we are being tested! I don't know what to do!<br>[:nf] [:ra 240] [:dv br 0 hs 95 ap 100 as 100 pr 220 hr 30 sr 30] This is <br>
Lister.<br>Rimmer! Come over here and help me with this new speech synthesizer!<br>[:np] [:dv as 0 bf 0 la 20 nf 00 ri 100 sm 0 hr 0 sr 0] [:ra 220] This is <br>Holly.<br>This is an important announcement. All persons aboard this ship are to <br>
report to the voice calibration office at once. That is all.<br>[:np] [:dv br 100 lx 100 bf 100 hr 100 sr 100 as 100 qu 100 ap 110 pr 150 sx <br>1 la 0] [:ra 210] This is the voice of the toaster.<br>I don't know where this voice calibration office is. Does anyone want some <br>
toast?<br>[:np] [:dv sm 1 hs 90 br 0 ri 0 la 0] [:ra 250] I'm the cat.<br>Who says my voice needs to be calibrated? I want fishies!<br>[:nd] [:dv as 0 bf 0 la 20 nf 00 ri 100 hr 0 sr 0] [:ra 220] I'm Queeg 500.<br>
None of you have any credit, so you may not use the voice calibrator.<br>[:nu] [:dv as 1 bf 10 la 30 nf 10 ri 100 sm 50 hr 100 sr 20 ap 130] [:ra <br>240] I'm the newer voice of Holly.<br>I'm picking something up. It's another ship. Its name is Deck Talk or <br>
something very close. They have been conducting an experiment on us all this <br>time. That would explain why we've been saying all these silly things. I <br>knew I was having trouble finding a record of any voice calibration office <br>
on Red Dwarf.<br><br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Corine Bickley" <<a href="mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu" target="_blank">corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu</a>><br>To: "DECtalk Discussions" <<a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a>><br>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 7:02 AM<br>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Any news?<br><br><br>> HI Jayson,<br>> I will do that. Could you suggest some sample sentences to synthesize?<br>> We're trying to find a way to put a "demo play" button on the Enable<br>
> website so people can type in any text they'd like to hear, but our<br>> programmer hasn't been able to spend time on that project right now.<br>> corine<br>><br>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Jayson Smith <<a href="mailto:ratguy@insightbb.com" target="_blank">ratguy@insightbb.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Do you have any audio samples you could share? Maybe I could elaborate on<br>>> what people don't like. I pretty much know what DT 4.3 sounds like.<br>>> Jayson<br>>><br>>> ----- Original Message -----<br>
>> From: "Corine Bickley" <<a href="mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu" target="_blank">corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu</a>><br>>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <<a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a>><br>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 7:53 PM<br>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Any news?<br>>><br>>><br>>>>i meant - i can't hear the differences, not being so attuned to the<br>>>> various DT versions. i can hear ok, but i'm not clear on the<br>
>>> differences in quality.<br>>>><br>>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Jayson Smith <<a href="mailto:ratguy@insightbb.com" target="_blank">ratguy@insightbb.com</a>> <br>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>> Hi,<br>>>>><br>>>>> Wo, you actually got 4.3 working with SAPI? What kind of quality <br>>>>> problems<br>>>>> are there?<br>>>>> Thanks.<br>>>>><br>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----<br>>>>> From: "Corine Bickley" <<a href="mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu" target="_blank">corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu</a>><br>>>>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <<a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a>><br>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 6:14 PM<br>>>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Any news?<br>>>>><br>>>>><br>>>>>> Still waiting for one of the "old" (not chronologically, just in terms<br>
>>>>> of contact with DT) to send some more versions for testing.<br>>>>>> 4.3 and 4.67 work in SAPI fine but preliminary listening results<br>>>>>> indicate dissatisfaction.<br>
>>>>> corine<br>>>>>><br>>>>>><br>>>>>><br>>>>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Jayson Smith <<a href="mailto:ratguy@insightbb.com" target="_blank">ratguy@insightbb.com</a>><br>
>>>>> wrote:<br>>>>>>> Okay, it's broken record time. Anything new going on with the SAPI<br>>>>>>> DECtalk?<br>>>>>>> Haven't heard anything in a while.<br>
>>>>>> Jayson<br>>>>>>><br>>>>>>> _______________________________________________<br>>>>>>> DECtalk mailing list<br>>>>>>> <a href="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br>
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