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<DIV>Alright, let me change the subject and question.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I'm giving out the 4.40 Speak Window because it's public domain. I
wish I had a batch file that would associate the en files with the speak
Window. Can anyone help me?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>SNOOPI BOTTEN </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 1/31/2012 6:48:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
mcmahan.jake@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There is no real way to pass any commands to
sapi5 unless it's xml and the program supporting the engine has to be
xml. I've worked with synths for a long time and I can see why this
is.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com href="mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com">ebruckert
Bruckert</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:38 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk Discussions</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DECtalk] how to do gender change in
Dectalk?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV> you know this is the type of
thing exactly what I was talking about that Dennis would never do, you
basically called me a liar.
<DIV>In all honesty there is nobody in the world that knows DECtalk better
than I do Kasai was with it before day one. There is no magic code and never
has been, with regard to singing, my guess is he doesn't know the sequence
required necessarily to do it. And I have no idea what version he licensed
from them at this point, but have the engineer call me and will get it
singing.</DIV>
<DIV> read the SAPI spec in order to comply and be
certified with Microsoft you have to comply. And part of that specification is
what commands to the synthesizer can be and which ones have to be, but no
other commands are allowed.</DIV>
<DIV> and I have no relationship with enable, other
than as a free consult, because I do care I wanted it for myself as well as
for others because I need a screen reader. I generate this text with the
speech recognition system so there may be some interesting mistakes.</DIV>
<DIV> The only way I know of to be able to send the
phonemic commands desired is to release a DLL which has to be talk to was a
program that supports the adapting interface, which isn't so awful because
there are two programs that are license free and free for anyone to use that
can talk to the deputy speak.exe and say.exe {four batch programs).</DIV>
<DIV> if anyone knows how to pass DECtalk specific
commands through a SAPI interface I'm all ears.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:52 PM, <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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class=gmail_quote><U></U>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT color=#000000 size=4
face=Arial>
<DIV>You know, after thinking about it, Ed is wrong, and I want to say why
because if I don't, I'm the one that looks like the one who's wrong.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Lets talk about Dectalk Reader 1 and how people should know by the name
that it can't sing. I'm gonna bring up Ancilla, which was a voice mail
program that ran in Windows 3.1. And if you think that's too old for
anyone to remember, un, I'm writing about it, so I remember. It came
with a speech engine and it happened to be Dectalk. And the surprise
feature was, it could sing.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Does any Dectalk product mention singing? Not that I know of, not
until you install it. So why on God's green Earth should anyone know
by the name alone that Dectalk Reader 1 won't sing? As long as it's
Dectalk, I think anyone would rightfully assume that it will sing. So
I think the name misleads people.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Now, why are you blaming Microsoft when I know for a fact that they are
not to blame for why it won't sing. And how do I know this?
There is a device company called Talking Box and they use Dectalk.
Their Dectalk won't sing and I had to know why just because I wanted to
know. I got to talk to an engineer at Talking Box and was totally
fascinated with what he told me. There is a command that they can
encode that restricts the singing. And being that I know this, I know
that Talking Box could either tell you the code, or tell you who to contact
to get the code. I would help track it but um, I was fired for
speaking the truth.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>And shall we bring up Stacy, the only person that you know that
has the codes that you need. The one person that had the brains enough
to walk away because all you guys do is make up stories. Actually I
have no idea why she walked away, but from everything I know, I don't blame
her and she actually has my respect.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So cut the crap. If I had the go ahead I could track down the
needed codes because I know where to start looking. And actually I
think you do to but you're to worried about your pension from Fonix. I
know about the contract, I know about a lot of stuff, a lot of red tape that
keeps this SAPI from being what it could be. That's why it's garbage,
because Corine Bickley signed an insane contract with Fonix and never did
get what she paid for. So you are all stuck with what you have to work
with because no one has any guts.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>And no, I never met Dennis Klatt, I never said I did. But I know
him through his work which was a head of it's time. I'm not the only
one that sings with Dectalk. If you search on youtube, you will find a
number of people who sang the National Anthem among other things.,
Dennis Klatt made that happen. Dennis had the desire to give the
possibility of singing never knowing how far it could go. Still, he
put out that possibility. And yeah, I'm the most known synthetic
singer, but I'm not the only synthetic singer. And it shouldn't have
to end over a source code. Dennis wanted to give everyone the option
to sing, so he made it part of Dectalk. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So by releasing a version that can't sing, you are giving up on every
person that wants to sing. Is that really what Dennis Klatt would
do? A guy that made his own Daughter smile by having Dectalk sing to
her on her birthday? You can actually live with not having this
sing?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>That's why I say and repeat, Dennis would roll over in his grave.
This is not what Dennis would do. His work speaks for him.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>SNOOPI BOTTEN </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV class=h5>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 1/30/2012 1:53:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, <A
title=mailto:beroberts@hughes.net href="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net"
target=_blank>beroberts@hughes.net</A> writes:</DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT size=4>I agree that the product is
releaseable and a dictionary should be included. The samples definitely
sound better now. I can understand 85-90 percent of the
words.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT size=4>Blake</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us align=left>
<HR>
<FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> <A
title=mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com"
target=_blank>dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</A> [mailto:<A
title=mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com"
target=_blank>dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</A>] <B>On Behalf Of
</B><A title=mailto:Dectalk@aol.com href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com"
target=_blank>Dectalk@aol.com</A><BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 30, 2012
1:39 PM<BR><B>To:</B> <A title=mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com"
target=_blank>dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[DECtalk] how to do gender change in Dectalk?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=4 face=Arial>
<DIV>Still, there should be a dictionary included to change how words are
pronounced.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>SNOOPI BOTTEN </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 1/30/2012 1:31:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, <A
title=mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com href="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com"
target=_blank>bmisch2002@gmail.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>i
heard these samples on klango a month ago and they sounded better than
that DECtalk sample that was out early last year.
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT><FONT size=4></FONT><BR>
<DIV>
<DIV>On Jan 30, 2012, at 12:28 PM, <A title=mailto:Dectalk@aol.com
href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" target=_blank>Dectalk@aol.com</A>
wrote:</DIV><BR>
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size=4 face=Arial>
<DIV>After posting the link I tried it myself. I think these
files were updated because I'm now understanding them at 100
percent. However, "New" still sounds like "Moo", but this is
releasable. I actually like it now. Wow! I never
thought you guys would pull it off! I hope you fix "New",
and the "H" in "Hurricane" is too long, but this is damn good
now.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>SNOOPI BOTTEN </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 1/30/2012 12:15:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
<A title=mailto:Dectalk@aol.com href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com"
target=_blank>Dectalk@aol.com</A> writes:</DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial><FONT color=#000000 size=4 face=Arial>
<DIV>Let me share the link to the unreleased demos that I'm talking
about. And actually the word "New" sounds like "Moo".</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>To hear samples of all the voices, just change the name at the
end of the link.</DIV>
<DIV><A title=http://davesvideoservicesco.startlogic.com/dennis/
href="http://davesvideoservicesco.startlogic.com/dennis/"
target=_blank>http://davesvideoservicesco.startlogic.com/dennis/</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>SNOOPI BOTTEN </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 1/30/2012 11:49:56 A.M. Eastern Standard
Time, <A title=mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com
href="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com"
target=_blank>bmisch2002@gmail.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>that ductal demo sounds like 4.61 or something close to
it.
<DIV><BR>
<DIV>
<DIV>On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:08 AM, <A title=mailto:Dectalk@aol.com
href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com" target=_blank>Dectalk@aol.com</A>
wrote:</DIV><BR>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
color=#000000 size=4 face=Arial>
<DIV>Fine, release it, whatever. The latest MP3 recordings
of Dectalk Reader 1 have pops in most of the voices, and the
weather report in the demo is only like 80 percent
understandable. So fine, I'll say it's the best
thing I ever heard in my life if that's what you want.
It's a lie, but gm starting to feel like the truth doesn't exist
any more.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"Four score and 7 years ago our Father's brought forth a
new nation", or whatever that line is. The word "New" is
annoyingly pronounced. I have no clue what is wrong with
it, it sounds like [nuwuwuw], rather than
[nuw]. I'm not sure, it's just annoying.
My point is, if you are not offering an online demo,
or anything that people can't try, and if those two
demos are the only thing that people hear, and if it won't
even have a dictionary that people can edit how it says words,
then, then, then. Oh good grief. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>SNOOPI BOTTEN </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 1/30/2012 10:31:01 A.M. Eastern Standard
Time, <A title=mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com
href="mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com"
target=_blank>edbruckert@gmail.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> additional
information, I forgot to mention that sometime in the late 80s
when Dennis added a female data set to DECtalk the sex option
change from a scaling function to simply selecting a male or
female phonetic base, but in no way can I remember when that
occurred.
<DIV> As a general comment I alone
did the four point X versions of DECtalk as Dennis was born at
that point, so I know them intimately, but even years ago
people would prefer different versions and trying to make one
sound exactly like the other was exceedingly difficult and a
lot of it occurred because of changes in the overall coding
that were done not because we wanted to but because we had to
meet evolving programming standards to keep it running on
various tools because if we didn't sell DECtalk we simply went
home and unfortunately economics force the focus away from the
screen reader environment. I did not like this change
but DECtalk more than once was in survival mode, I am using
the latest version and to say it's on understandable is an
exaggeration,</DIV>
<DIV>preferring a different version is very understandable. I
have no problems with people saying what I want but understand
this is anything but easy with limited funds, I donate my time
but other people cannot and the fact that I'm going blind and
I am not a Windows or SAPI programmer there are limits to what
can be done. But I think junk is an unfair
exaggeration.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Jake
McMahan <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
title=mailto:mcmahan.jake@gmail.com
href="mailto:mcmahan.jake@gmail.com"
target=_blank>mcmahan.jake@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><U></U>
<DIV
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<DIV>
<DIV> I have to say, I love the
sound of dectalk reader one. I really want this
version badly. I don't care if it will sing, and I
don't care about anything else. I love it the way it
is. To me, it's not garbage, it's a version of dectalk
that I personally like. I want this version,
again.</DIV></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma">
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5">
<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=mailto:Dectalk@aol.com
href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com"
target=_blank>Dectalk@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, January 29, 2012 9:09 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com"
target=_blank>dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DECtalk] how to do gender change
in Dectalk?</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=4 face=Arial>
<DIV>Um, Ed, excuse me but Blake and I both heard the latest
MP3 samples of Dectalk Reader 1. The speech is not
understandable.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>SNOOPI BOTTEN </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 1/29/2012 8:59:14 P.M. Eastern
Standard Time, <A title=mailto:musicalman1@comcast.net
href="mailto:musicalman1@comcast.net"
target=_blank>musicalman1@comcast.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>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Well, I've stated this opinion time
and time again, and every time I do, people seem to think
I'm nuts or that I'm too conservative.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>First off, people are nnot stupid.
If they call it Dectalk Reader, then who in their right
mind will think snoopi's instructions on making it sing,
will work with a reader of all things?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>And, the Dectalk that Enable has,
isn't unusable. there are some on this list that like it
for what it is. I myself do not, but that's my opinion.
One man's garbage is another man's
treasure...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>This isn't the first time someone
released a Dectalk that wasn't a thing like what we all
know. Force did it, Fonix did it. But everyone still
stuckw ith Dectalk 4.3 and 4.4. So I don't see why Enable
is going to just ruin everything. If people don't like it,
they will simply not use it just like they did with
everything else. I do not agree with Enable's motives, but
I will never tell them their product is garbage. Let's say
I tell someone on this list their production is garbage.
they worked for hours on it. They will most likely be glad
to have received the high complement? Even if it's the
worst piece of garbage you ever heard. It's simply not
anything close to constructive to say it that way. So
now Enable just releases what they have because some
people use it and they've fired those who told them off.
It's sad but true. They have their faults, we have ours.
If we don't like them, that's how it is. But I was
seriously hoping the Enable business was over with. They'd
either fix it or they wouldn't. *sigh*</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I continue to hope that Dennis will
like what eventually becomes of Dectalk. Maybe enable will
do something for the better, or someone else will. But we
have no hopeful dectalk future, which is sad. I believe
all of us, that being Enable and those of us who were very
harsh on them, had a part in that. I am so fed up with
this argument between us and Enable! Let's just not post
anything else degrading about them. Please? we've
done that enough!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com
href="mailto:edbruckert@gmail.com"
target=_blank>ebruckert Bruckert</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com"
target=_blank>DECtalk Discussions</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday,
January 29, 2012 9:30 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[DECtalk] how to do gender change in Dectalk?</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT><FONT
face=Arial></FONT><FONT
face=Arial></FONT><BR></DIV> 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 title=mailto:Dectalk@aol.com
href="mailto:Dectalk@aol.com"
target=_blank>Dectalk@aol.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex"
class=gmail_quote><U></U>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
color=#000000 size=4 face=Arial>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>SNOOPI BOTTEN </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 1/28/2012 9:49:19 P.M. Eastern
Standard Time, <A title=mailto:beroberts@hughes.net
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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
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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
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wrote:<BR>> [:sx 0]<BR>><BR>> On 1/28/12,
Blake Roberts <<A
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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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