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<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><strong>I can't wait for September because I discovered John Famham in Australia.  I love his music!  So I'll be doing some of his stuff.  This guy blows me away!  I already did "DARE TO DREAM".  Totally awesome stuff!</strong></span></div>
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In a message dated 7/16/2019 5:39:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, joshknnd1982@gmail.com writes:
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal">Yes, but decTalk overall does a much better job at singing.</p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal">Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0in;"><strong>From: </strong><a href="mailto:aksel@blindsigtmail.dk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">Aksel Leo Christoffersen</a><br clear="none"><strong>Sent: </strong>Tuesday, July 16, 2019 17:26<br clear="none"><strong>To: </strong><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">'DECtalk'</a><br clear="none"><strong>Subject: </strong>Re: [DECtalk] my decTalk sounds strange</p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">Eloquence can actualy sort of sing, if you set it to monotone, and then change the pitch for each note.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">Best regards:</span></p>
<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">Aksel Christoffersen</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="DA" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Fra:</span></strong><span lang="DA" style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <strong>På vegne af </strong>Josh Kennedy<br clear="none"><strong>Sendt:</strong> 16. juli 2019 23:18<br clear="none"><strong>Til:</strong> DECtalk<br clear="none"><strong>Emne:</strong> Re: [DECtalk] my decTalk sounds strange</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal">Well I sent my request to the Espeak list. Since both decTalk and softVoice can sing, and they have both been preserved as NVDA addons, they are both worth saving for future generations to use. After all, the modern voices like eloquence and the new vocalizer voices certainly cannot sing. But decTalk and softVoice can, and I am glad somebody has taken the time to preserve them and to make sure they work far into the future.</p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><strong>From: </strong><a href="mailto:aksel@blindsigtmail.dk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">Aksel Leo Christoffersen</a><br clear="none"><strong>Sent: </strong>Tuesday, July 16, 2019 17:03<br clear="none"><strong>To: </strong><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">'DECtalk'</a><br clear="none"><strong>Subject: </strong>Re: [DECtalk] my decTalk sounds strange</p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">I don’t know anything about that, sorry. Maybe someone else do. However, I’ll make that pitch-list in a few days, if anyone’s interested.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">Best regards:</span></p>
<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">Aksel Christoffersen</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="DA" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Fra:</span></strong><span lang="DA" style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <strong>På vegne af </strong>Josh Kennedy<br clear="none"><strong>Sendt:</strong> 16. juli 2019 23:00<br clear="none"><strong>Til:</strong> DECtalk<br clear="none"><strong>Emne:</strong> Re: [DECtalk] my decTalk sounds strange</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal">Excellent. But what about adding decTalk and softVoice as loadable dll files and using them as extra Espeak voices?</p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><strong>From: </strong><a href="mailto:aksel@blindsigtmail.dk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">Aksel Leo Christoffersen</a><br clear="none"><strong>Sent: </strong>Tuesday, July 16, 2019 16:53<br clear="none"><strong>To: </strong><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">'DECtalk'</a><br clear="none"><strong>Subject: </strong>Re: [DECtalk] my decTalk sounds strange</p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">It isn’t, I bought it used from a member of this list.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">I use a serial to USB adapter.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">It runs version 4.2CD, which, in my upinion, is the best version, closely followed by 4.3 and 4.41.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">Best regards:</span></p>
<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">Aksel Christoffersen</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="DA" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Fra:</span></strong><span lang="DA" style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <strong>På vegne af </strong>Josh Kennedy<br clear="none"><strong>Sendt:</strong> 16. juli 2019 22:47<br clear="none"><strong>Til:</strong> DECtalk<br clear="none"><strong>Emne:</strong> Re: [DECtalk] my decTalk sounds strange</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal">You have a decTalk express? It is serial only, right? I didn’t know decTalk express was still made.</p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">My DECtalk Express sometimes says the pitch frequencies, when I change the pitch in NVDA, when I use my DECtalk Express with my computer, and I have a list somewhere of the pitch frequencies for the individual voices. So that way, I can work out a list of pitches for each voices, and send it to you.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">However, it’ll probably take some time.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">Best regards:</span></p>
<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">Aksel Christoffersen</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal">Yes I think you are right. I wonder what the pitches for the other voices should be? The bug is when I switch voices the pitch does not change in order to match the voice I am switching it to using the NVDA addon. I wonder how difficult it would be to add decTalk and softVoice as voices in Espeak? It would probably just be a matter of having Espeak load the dll files for decTalk and or softVoice tts and assigning them an espeak voice, such as:</p>
<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal">Dt+m1 for Paul, and so on.</p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">Hi,</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">I think the exact right pitch is 24 %.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">Best regards:</span></p>
<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="color: #1f497d;">Aksel Christoffersen</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4228949202MsoNormal">The decTalk addon I am using was not sounding quite right when I compared it to some of the decTalk speak windows. I found out why. There is a bug in the addon where when you switch decTalk voices, the pitch is not set correctly. The pitch was set to 16, I was using Paul which is my favorite voice, and it sounded strange because Paul’s pitch for NVDA should be set to 25%. I changed it, now decTalk sounds much better.</p>
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