<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body>Aksel,<br><span>I think you do a fantastic job making Dectalk sing. I encourage you to create more songs with Dectalk in the future.</span><br><span>Blake</span><br><span> </span><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Aksel Leo Christoffersen <aksel@blindsigtmail.dk><br>To: 'DECtalk' <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><br>Sent: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:49:38 -0400 (EDT)<br>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] A DECtalk song I've made<br><br><div class="WordSection1 "><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I think the word ”warm” was difecult, because it repeats the phoneme ”ao”, twese because it shifts note in the middle of the word.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I agree, that the leat singer, which by the way is called Kim Larsen, doesn’t sing very well in this song, but he sings better in later performances of the same song. He performed the song a lo tafter the band split up.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best regards:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Aksel Christoffersen</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Fra:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <strong>På vegne af </strong>Blake Roberts<br><strong>Sendt:</strong> 28. juni 2019 18:46<br><strong>Til:</strong> DECtalk<br><strong>Emne:</strong> Re: [DECtalk] A DECtalk song I've made</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">I'm fine with the wave version. I purchased the original song by the band on Amazon for comparison. I think Dectalk sings better than the band's lead vocalist. That is my opinion. For future reference when making Dectalk songs: I found the word warm difficult to understand until I heard the original version. The word war was programmed correctly so I'm not sure why warm was difficult. I could understand all other words in Aksel's Dectalk version, just not warm.<br>Blake<br> <br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Aksel Leo Christoffersen <aksel@blindsigtmail.dk><br>To: 'DECtalk' <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><br>Sent: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:09:55 -0400 (EDT)<br>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] A DECtalk song I've made</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Blake,</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m glad you like the DECtalk song. No, I’m not at all a member of the band. Gasolin’ was an old band from the 70’s. You can hear the original song on youtube here:</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESWg3LREby4&list=LLGGLRBiAnn9TYYNpll5QcPA&index=662" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESWg3LREby4&list=LLGGLRBiAnn9TYYNpll5QcPA&index=662</a></span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I used a Yamaha Tyros4 keyboard for the music, and I bought the midifile from midispot.com.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I uploaded the song as a wav-file, because I’m totally lossless-freak, and try to avoid mp3-files. However, I can upload it as a flac-file insteat, if you’d like that.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best regards:</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Aksel Christoffersen</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Fra:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">På vegne af </span></strong>Blake Roberts<br><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Sendt:</span></strong> 28. juni 2019 15:52<br><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Til:</span></strong> DECtalk<br><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Emne:</span></strong> Re: [DECtalk] A DECtalk song I've made</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">Hi Aksel,<br>I am very impressed with the new song you made using Dectalk! To me, The midi file sounds like an actual backup track. Are you a member of the band? I definitely like the lyrics and music style. I am also impressed that you know how to do harmony in Dectalk. Wow!<br>Curiosity question: Is htere a reason you uploaded the song as a wave filei nstead of MP3?<br>Blake<br> <br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Aksel Leo Christoffersen <aksel@blindsigtmail.dk><br>To: 'DECtalk' <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><br>Sent: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 05:50:31 -0400 (EDT)<br>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] A DECtalk song I've made</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi,</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">First, I find a backing track, or use a midi file. It depends of which I think sounds best. Then, I guess on what the tempo is, and start to write the DECtalk phoneme times so it matches with the tempo. I then continue and write maybe 4 lines of the song with DECtalk, and then start the music, and press play in DECtalk at the right moment, so the DECtalk plays along with the music, to test if it syncronise perfect with the music. If it’s good, I just continue writing the DECtalk song. If it doesn’t, I adjust the phonemes until it’s as I like.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Best regards:</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Aksel Christoffersen</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Fra:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">På vegne af </span></strong>mattias jonsson<br><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Sendt:</span></strong> 28. juni 2019 11:42<br><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Til:</span></strong> dectalk@bluegrasspals.com<br><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Emne:</span></strong> Re: [DECtalk] A DECtalk song I've made</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p><span style="color:black">wow how do you do that?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Den 2019-06-28 kl. 11:15, skrev Aksel Leo Christoffersen:</span></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Hi,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Well, I’ve made this song called This Is My Life for DECtalk. It’s writen by a danish band called Gasolin’, but the lyrics are in english. The music is a midi-file played through my keyboard.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">I would love to hear what you think about it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Here it is:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xq61xpm3vfjo07b/DECtalk%20Sings%20-%20This%20Is%20My%20Life%20by%20Gasolin%27.wav?dl=1" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/xq61xpm3vfjo07b/DECtalk%20Sings%20-%20This%20Is%20My%20Life%20by%20Gasolin%27.wav?dl=1</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Thanks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Best regards:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Aksel Christoffersen</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><pre><span style="color:black">_______________________________________________</span></pre><pre><span style="color:black">Dectalk mailing list</span></pre><pre><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank">Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a></span></pre><pre><span style="color:black"><a href="http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk" target="_blank">http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a></span></pre></blockquote></body></html>