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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=088551719-29082011><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Thanks for the explanation, Ed. As Alex and I have both
written, the first draft is impressive. Great job!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=088551719-29082011><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Blake</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com
[mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>ebruckert
Bruckert<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 29, 2011 3:08 PM<BR><B>To:</B> DECtalk
Discussions<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DECtalk] List UP?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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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><BR></DIV>
<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>
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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>>> >
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This is a weather file.<BR>>><BR>>>
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<DIV class=im>>><BR>>> I gotcha man. If anyone can do it,
you can dude<BR>>><BR>>>
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