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On 8/29/2011 3:07 PM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
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<div>These are all generated by just plopping the text into speak,
since the scaling and interaction of these things has always
varied slightly</div>
<div>the the goal now is to try to adjust things the detailed
stuff like little overloads for the last step.</div>
<div>I'm not sure if I reset Paul or left them at the custom voice
when I did the weather, so I'll resend the weather being sure
it's regular Paul, but in fact if everybody likes the style we
can modify those base parameters, as I already know that the
pitch scaling is slightly different so will probably have to
change the pitch things but that's the purpose of tweaking. On
some of the voices that I fooled around was so much I really
don't have a feel for what's better or worse.<br>
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<div>On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Alex H. <span><<a
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wrote:<br>
<blockquote>Hi,<br>
<br>
First, excellent job! The custom Paul voice in the weather
file is<br>
great. It has a lot of inflection and sounds like 4.4, which
is pretty<br>
impressive. The test.wav is strange though. It's very buzzy
and hard<br>
to understand. Just to clarify, for now, are we just testing
the Paul<br>
voice?<br>
<br>
The weather sample seems to be very articulate and precise. It
doesn't<br>
have any of that slurring of old versions on certain words.
This is<br>
great.<br>
<br>
Just to hear the sample at a higher rate of speed, can you do
the same<br>
text at about 350 wpm to see how it stands up?<br>
<br>
I didn't hear any of the soft tones at the end of sentences,
and even<br>
ran the file and amplified silences, and it's about 48 dB
below<br>
normal, so it's pretty quiet as it is without the code to
squash the<br>
humming.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Alex<br>
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On 8/29/11, ebruckert Bruckert <<a
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> First some baseline testing stuff. Do not over test
it in other words in the<br>
> beginning this is a rough cut so if we get into too
many details or changes<br>
> it will just all become mud. We should only make a
few changes at a time,<br>
> the other problem may become differences of opinion
especially with some of<br>
> the voices which were never very stable because we
never really liked<br>
> exactly what we had. This is an old version of
DECtalk so occasionally you<br>
> will hear little homes at the end of things during
what should be silence.<br>
> This is a mathematical problem called a limit cycle
when we're finished I'll<br>
> add the new code I developed to squelch it. It took
us years to figure out a<br>
> way to get rid of it perceptually we never could get
rid of it<br>
> mathematically. Lastly I had to change the gain of
voicing on the modified<br>
> voice that was sent without going into a long
explanation which I can later<br>
> if people want the gains of the cascade vocal track
have never ever been<br>
> constant it's a mathematical issue where you're
constantly trying to adjust<br>
> them between quantization and overload and we've
never been able to<br>
> guarantee them.<br>
> Lastly people can think about singing. The problem is
that most SAPI<br>
> applications strip stuff out so I'm looking for
suggestions of how we could<br>
> fool it and tell DECtalk that it was supposed to go
into phonemic mode so it<br>
> can sing. I don't know what can and cannot get
through the various<br>
> applications and while<br>
><br>
> Again don't put too much effort in two critical
listening at this stage as<br>
> were not fine-tuning it just training 3n where
targets are<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:06 PM, jake mcmahan <<a
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>> On 8/29/2011 11:52 AM, ebruckert Bruckert
wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hello everyone the good news is I had a generator
the bad news is I had to<br>
>> use it. I'm having trouble with the 2008 free
edition of visual C I can't<br>
>> run the debugger. But before I uninstall and
reinstall it I want to get<br>
>> this<br>
>> baseline out but it's a little bit painful
because I can't run the<br>
>> debugger<br>
>> so I'm doing it by an archaic method. So it'll be
out sometime today and<br>
>> then I'll reload visual C.<br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM, jake mcmahan<br>
>> <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>><br>
>> On 8/28/2011 11:40 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Ed K okay I'm ready. I have a base tuning of all
the voices. So send me<br>
>> the<br>
>> various files to test with and we will try and
get some agreement on the<br>
>> voices.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:32 AM, ebruckert
Bruckert <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>> > wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I was visiting my grandson, back to woek
today.....<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Alex H.<br>
>> <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> Your message came through. DECTalk is alive and
singing. :D<br>
>><br>
>> Alex<br>
>> On 8/20/2011 11:22 PM, Doris and Chris wrote:<br>
>> > I have not seen any messages from this list
in over a week. So I was<br>
>> > wondering if the list was down or if there
is a problem at my end or<br>
>> > with my subscription.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Cheers,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Doris<br>
>> ><br>
>> >
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>> take this, for example. This is a weather
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>> I gotcha man. If anyone can do it, you can dude<br>
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again, nice job ed<br>
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