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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>It sounds to me as though they are using vocoder or something.
That's what it sounded like to me.</p>
<p>-Ulysses<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/28/2017 1:38 PM, Jayson Smith
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
I received an Amazon Echo Dot for Christmas. I learned today that my Echo
now has a new feature called Diddy. If I speak a short message, it is
converted into a song sung by computerized voices with background music. The
voices and music are selected at random. I can change the song, if I need
to, until I find a voice/melody I like. I have created a few diddies using
the Diddy skill on my Amazon Echo Dot. I recorded them onto my computer
using a line-in cable. Does anyone want to hear my diddies? The voices are
not Dectalk. I don't know if they are proprietary, created by the Diddy
company which made the Echo Dot skill available.
Blake
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