<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 class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Alex H. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com">linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">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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<div class="h5"><br>On 8/29/11, ebruckert Bruckert <<a href="mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com">edbruckert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> 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 href="mailto:mcmahan.jake@gmail.com">mcmahan.jake@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>><br>>> 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 href="mailto:mcmahan.jake@gmail.com">mcmahan.jake@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>>><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 href="mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com">edbruckert@gmail.com</a><br>>> > 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 href="mailto:linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com">linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>>><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>>> > _______________________________________________<br>>> > DECtalk mailing list<br>
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