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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Jayson,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I know about the share to Twitter feature of
Diddy. I don't have a Twitter account. It amazes me the number of voices available
and how fast the conversion from words to song is done by Diddy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Blake<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:windowtext'> Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jayson Smith<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, January 28, 2017
4:38 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> DECtalk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [DECtalk] a new way
to sing</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi,<br>
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You can get a much higher quality recording of ditties by sharing them to
Twitter, then using Youtube-DL to download the resulting Twitter video URLs.
That's the only way I know of to get a first generation copy. As played through
Amazon Echo, a lot of treble is lost.<br>
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I, too, wonder what voices they're using to sing. The fact that it can sing
whatever you throw at it means they're not using a huge library of samples or
something.<br>
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Jayson<br>
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On 1/28/2017 3:08 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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cite="mid:C2762F8451C64D05BD4B8EA9740A02CC@Blakethegreat" type=cite><pre wrap=""><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I received an Amazon Echo Dot for Christmas. I learned today that my Echo<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>now has a new feature called Diddy. If I speak a short message, it is<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>converted into a song sung by computerized voices with background music. The<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>voices and music are selected at random. I can change the song, if I need<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>to, until I find a voice/melody I like. I have created a few diddies using<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>the Diddy skill on my Amazon Echo Dot. I recorded them onto my computer<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>using a line-in cable. Does anyone want to hear my diddies? The voices are<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>not Dectalk. I don't know if they are proprietary, created by the Diddy<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>company which made the Echo Dot skill available.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Blake<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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<pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dectalk mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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