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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4><A href="http://pastorsnoopi.twigs76.com/music/SAPI%20DEMO.mp3">http://pastorsnoopi.twigs76.com/music/SAPI%20DEMO.mp3</A></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>The above link is the sample that people wanted.
Blake and I are both told that there is no problem. Tell that to our
ears. (YUCK) </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 5/4/2011 11:16:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
edbruckert@gmail.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>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 title=mailto:Dectalk@aol.com href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com">Dectalk@aol.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Brace yourselves because I don't think you guys
will like it. The very worst voice is Kit. I'd do the recording
for you guys but I really don't want to be linked with this pour Dectalk
quality. Have fun guys.</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 5/4/2011 9:10:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, <A title=mailto:ratguy@insightbb.com 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 title=http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dt43sample.mp3 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 title=mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu href="mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu" target=_blank>corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu</A>><BR>To: "DECtalk
Discussions" <<A title=mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com 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 title=mailto:ratguy@insightbb.com 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 title=mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu href="mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu" target=_blank>corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu</A>><BR>>> To:
"DECtalk Discussions" <<A title=mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com 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 title=mailto:ratguy@insightbb.com 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 title=mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu href="mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu" target=_blank>corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu</A>><BR>>>>> To:
"DECtalk Discussions" <<A title=mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com 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 title=mailto:ratguy@insightbb.com 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>>>>>>>
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DECtalk mailing list<BR>>>>>>> <A title=mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com href="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com" target=_blank>DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com</A><BR>>>>>>> <A title=http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk href="http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk" target=_blank>http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</A><BR>>>>>>><BR>>>>>>
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DECtalk mailing list<BR>>>>>> <A title=mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com href="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com" target=_blank>DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com</A><BR>>>>>> <A title=http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk href="http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk" target=_blank>http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</A><BR>>>>><BR>>>>>
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DECtalk mailing list<BR>>>>> <A title=mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com href="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com" target=_blank>DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com</A><BR>>>>> <A title=http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk href="http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk" target=_blank>http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</A><BR>>>>><BR>>>>
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