I want to clarify some things and some things that make me quite upset. Making statements like Dennis would roll over in his grave when you never even knew Dennis I find disrespectful. Dennis was a person I always looked up to and tried to emulate in my life. And he would never denigrate people the way you seem inclined to do, especially when in plain English you don't know what the hell you're talking about!! the issue of singing in the SAPI version has nothing to do with DECtalk if you want to get mad at somebody get mad at Microsoft for creating a specification that doesn't allow for commands to be passed to a synthesizer. The DECtalk created could sing if you get get the damn commands to it. In plain English I'm thoroughly disgusted with your rants.<div>
The sex command was created for the original DECtalk because we only had one acoustic database so Dennis did the best he could trying to develop an algorithm to scale performance between a male and a female which works to some extent but can't be perfect due to the complexities involved in that it's not linear.</div>
<div> </div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:45 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com">Dectalk@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Thank you! I knew it was possible but I never totally knew how.
I am trying to jump start my business called "THE FLAME OF HOPE". As most
of you know I have over 1200 songs, and right now I'm trying to put as many of
them as I can to music. Some I flat out can't because when I first started
I made really bad errors such as not doing the entire song. Part of it was
I started with easy sheet music which often only has one verse. But I'm
doing new songs as well.</div>
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<div>The reason is, people now have avatars and easy to use animation
software. So I'm marketing the free 4.40 Speak Window which is free for
the asking, then I'm selling my instructions on how to create voices and make
them sing. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>I bring this up because I have a question for all of you. Enable
Rehab is getting ready to release "DECTALK READER 1", and there might be an
Earthquake on that day because Dennis Klatt might roll over in his grave.
This thing as far as I know won't sing. The voices from the latest I have
heard are still bad quality because the voices pop in the MP3 recordings that I
have heart. I don't think it will come with a dictionary so people can
edit how words are said. And in my opinion, this thing is still
garbage! I got fired for saying that but big deal, I'm only saying the
truth!</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Anyway, Enable Rehab won't take "Dectalk" out of the name because they feel
the name is a marketing tool. I personally think it's fraud because it
will be so different from the Dectalk that we all know and love that it really
isn't Dectalk. They're calling it "Reader 1" so people will know by the
title that it will only read. (Sick)</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Anyway, I'm upset because thanks to both E voice and now the internet, I
think I'm as associated with Dectalk as much as Dennis Klatt. This
upcoming release is making me sick because I'm afraid people might buy this
Dectalk SAPI garbage and think my instructions will work with it. So I'm
very upset that they are calling it Dectalk anything. They really need to
remove "Dectalk" from the title because I view it as a deception of the worse
kind!</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Here is my question. I think a petition should be started because
this is just wrong! BUT, I don't know if the petition should be to just
drop "Dectalk" from the name, OR, to just scrap this garbage. And, I don't
want to be the one to start the petition because I don't know how. But if
a petition does get started, it needs to go all over the internet and get back
to Enable Rehab.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I just feel that by marking this garbage under "Dectalk", they are taking
advantage of both the blind and the disabled communities because they know
"Dectalk" will bring in sales just because of the name. And because my
name is known with Dectalk, I feel this soon to be released garbage will effect
my image and my business.</div>
<div> </div>
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<div>SNOOPI BOTTEN </div><div><div class="h5">
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<div>In a message dated 1/28/2012 9:49:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
<a href="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net" target="_blank">beroberts@hughes.net</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">Thanks
Alex. That syntax works in both DT 4.4 and 4.3. I did a quick test<br>with
both versions. Note to Snoopi: the female versions of Frank and
Dennis<br>sound odd. I think breathiness will need to be changed with the br
command<br>for best results.<br>Blake<br><br>-----Original
Message-----<br>From:
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On Behalf Of Alex H.<br>Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 9:06 PM<br>To:
DECtalk Discussions<br>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] how to do gender change in
Dectalk?<br><br>sorry, [:nf][:dv sx 0] should do it.<br><br>On 1/28/12, Alex
H. <<a href="mailto:linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com" target="_blank">linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> [:sx 0]<br>><br>> On
1/28/12, Blake Roberts <<a href="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net" target="_blank">beroberts@hughes.net</a>> wrote:<br>>> Hi
all,<br>>> Snoopi asked me to pose a question to the listserv. He knows
about <br>>> the gender change command, sx. Does it work in DT 4.4? If
so, what is <br>>> the correct syntax?<br>>> Snoopi wants to
program the song Emotion by The Bee Gees using a <br>>> breathy female
Frank or Dennis. I know that may sound funny, but it <br>>> is a serious
thing. If anyone knows how to change Frank or Dennis to <br>>> female,
please share. I figure someone on here probably does. <br>>>
Alternatively, if anyone else wants to program a female Frank or <br>>>
Dennis version of the song, Snoopi is willing to do the mixing with
<br>>> music after fixing any phoneems that may be incorrect. He is
waiting <br>>> for his communication device to be repaired, so Snoopi
will not be <br>>> able to program the song for about a
month.<br>>> Blake<br>>>
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