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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello. I think I am making some progress. I was
able to find my 4.3 Speak.exe ap. I see how it works by pasting in one of the
example text files, america the beautiful for example, and converting it into a
wav file.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>But how do you make the Speak.exe ap sing "on the
fly"? I remember there is a shortcut key to do this. For example, when
practicing some codes/singing to see how it sounds. Instead of having to convert
it into a wav file everytime.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">Blake Roberts via Dectalk</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">'DECtalk'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 28, 2014 9:01
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DECtalk] the tone
command</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Thank you Ulysses and
Raymond for providing an explanation of how to generate tones with the tone
command. James, To make Dectalk sing you need to use phoneems, pitches for
notes and time values. Phoneme-based singing is different from tone generation
because different numbers are used. That and the use of phonemes to represent
sounds. The pitches for singing range from 1 (low c) to 37, or maybe 38 I
don't quite remember. Anyway, 13 is middle C, 15 is D, 17 E,
etc.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Blake<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Dectalk
[mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>master_j44--- via
Dectalk<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday,
December 27, 2014 10:34 PM<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">DECtalk</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">DECtalk</st1:PersonName>] the tone
command</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Interesting
read!</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I've always wanted to make my
Dectalk sing but didn't know how to go about it. Is it a matter of writing the
lyrics/tone codes in a notepad file and running that through some Dectalk
window program?</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Any help/instructions would be
most appreciated. Thanks. :)</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">James</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2
face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A
title=dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">Raymond C. Grote via Dectalk</A>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A
title=dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
Saturday, December 27, 2014 8:48 PM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Re:
[<st1:PersonName w:st="on">DECtalk</st1:PersonName>] the tone
command<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hi,</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">It's been a ridiculously long
time since I popped in here, but I've been fighting with e-mail settings
forever and got tired of dealing with it. Now I finally got it
sorted.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The numbers used in Dectalk's
tone command represent note frequencies. Basically, the number represents
how many times the wave travels up and down in one second. The higher the
frequency, the higher the pitch of the
tone.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Unfortunately, all this isn't
very useful when it comes to musical synthesizers. So there are several
methods to convert musical notes to
frequency.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">One thing that holds true
though, is that the A above middle C has a frequency of 440 hertz, so
you'd use 440 in Dectalk's tone command to generate that A. If you
wanted the octave above, you'd use 880, for the octave above that, you'd use
1760, etc. And for the octaves below, you'd use 220, 110, etc. just doubling
or halving the frequency depending on which direction you wanted to go.
"Fine," you say, "What about other
notes?"</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The easiest way to get other
notes is to go online and try searching for a frequency to musical notes
reference table. Many exist, with varrying degrees of accuracy. I wouldn't
spend too much time nit picking on accuracy at least for Dectalk use,
because I think Dectalk can only do whole numbers anyway. One or two values
off the mark isn't going to make too much of an audible difference. The main
thing to check for is that there is an A 440 on the chart, and every A above
that is doubling, and every A below is half like I said
above.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Now, the really dirty approach
that you can do if you don't feel like looking at a chart but instead want
to do your own math. Why you would use this approach over a simple chart is
beyond me unless you're genuinely interested in the maths, but here goes
anyway.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">If you want to calculate other
frequencies for other notes yourself, you can multiply a bass frequency,
such as 440, by the 12th root of two. I'm not sure what that is but I did
have it written down before. I've done a quick calculation and if you
multiply by 1.0594631, that is pretty close. So, 440 multiplied by 1.0594631
is about 466, so that 466 in Dectalk's tone command would get you A
sharp.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Now, that multiplication figure
I gave above isn't totally accurate; the A an octave above, as I said,
should be at 880 hertz exactly, but if you do the multiplication as
suggested above, you'll get something like 880.00006. Which won't make an
audible difference to even the most trained ear. Even if you'd come up
with 881, I doubt most people would notice, even if you'd played 440 right
before.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">If you keep multiplying it out
to get higher and higher using the figure I gave, you're not going to run
into a huge margin of error until you get into ultrasonics, and dectalk can
only go up to 5512 HZ. Which is just a step up from telephony. In other
words it's not high enough to pose a problem here. That said, however, if
you actually multiply by the 12th route of 2 properly, you'll avoid that
margin of error, or at the very least, keep it
negligible.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I hope all of this has helped.
Don't let the complicated multiplication by the 12th root of 2 and the like
overwhelm you. I just put it here to show how to do it scientifically if you
were interested to take that route. Like I said, just looking them up on a
reference table really should be all you have to do to get satisfactory
results.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A
title=dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">Blake Roberts via Dectalk</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A
title=dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">'DECtalk'</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
Saturday, December 27, 2014 8:20 PM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
[<st1:PersonName w:st="on">DECtalk</st1:PersonName>] the tone
command<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I have known for years about
the Dectalk command for generating musical
tones.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">[:tone]<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">However, I have never
understood which tones represent what notes. Does anyone know of a method
for figuring that out? As an example of a file with tones, I am attaching
We All Live In A Yellow Submarine text file. I have no idea who made it.
The fact that the tone command is used near the end to create a melody
amazes me.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Blake<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">_______________________________________________<BR>Dectalk
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">_______________________________________________<BR>Dectalk
mailing
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