[DECtalk] mod talker

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
As I've said before, the developers know about the nonworking Sapi thing and
they're working on it.  It's most likely a bug in their software, but since
they haven't yet been able to reproduce it themselves it's hard for them to
troubleshoot.
As for recording voices, I had some of the same thoughts you did when I
first started, but this isn't a product out of science fiction.  The fact
is, by default, there are one thousand six hundred forty nine specific
things the system wants a speaker to say in order to generate a synthetic
version of that speaker's voice.  This includes some sentences which a
person using a communication device might use, some words, some phrases,
some of which are reasonable and others don't make any sense (for example,
"latching churches" or "darling potato") and some pure nonsense not real
words which, I'm sure, is designed to capture several versions of different
speech sounds.  This inventory of things to say is designed to capture all
of the sounds a person can make while speaking in the English language.  In
order to make a voice out of a prerecorded thing, you'd certainly have to
create your own inventory from scratch since you couldn't make, say, a
character from a movie say the 1649 things it wants.  You'd also have to
insure that every last speech sound got captured at least once.  For a
demonstration of this, look at www.bluegrasspals.com/modeltalker and grab
sample1.  Here, I had gotten to a point where several of the speech sounds
necessary to speak what I had typed had not yet been recorded, and the
result is gaps in the speech, since the system had no idea how to synthesize
those missing sounds.  Also, there would need to be no background noise,
music, etc. in the files, since that would only confuse the recorder and/or
put undesired sounds in the speech produced.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "shaun everiss" <shaun.e at xtra.co.nz>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 5:39 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] mod talker


> Well thats strange, I tried this with my software, sam didn't even
> detect the voice.
> And well every voice usually plays even in control panel/speech mode.
> This one did not.
> Its a pitty this does not work as expected, as I was hoping to use
> the system for an unlimited synth thingy maybe some speech recordings.
> Can this modtalker and invtool accept stuff from other files other
> than stuff recorded if they have speech in them?
> Or just wav files in general?
> That could open the way to some interesting voices already set as
synthetic.
> The trek comps come to mind, both voyager, tng, and tos as I have a
> load of files on each plus the elete force 1 and 2, and ofcause some
> borg stuff.
> At 09:10 p.m. 18/08/2006, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >First, SAPI isn't working for lots of blind folks, and the developers are
> >aware of this.  The funny thing is, they can get SAPI working just fine.
I
> >told Tim to download and install the Jaws demo and see if that makes Sapi
> >stop working.  Since lots of blind people are having problems, yet the
> >developers can use Sapi just fine, blindness related software could
> >certainly be a variable.
> >As for Invtool, please check out Invtutor which is available with the
> >program.  This is a series of web pages which should get you going.  As
I've
> >always said, there's lots of mouse clicking required but thank God the
> >buttons are labeled.
> >To select the high-quality voice once it's installed, I haven't done
this,
> >but go into Modeltalker, hit Alt+O then Enter for the Options dialog.
You
> >have to know what the voice database is called, maybe if there's
> >instructions for the voice it tells you.  Anyway, delete what's in the
box
> >and type in the name of the new voice database.  Then mouse click on the
Ok
> >button to put the setting into effect.
> >Hope this helps!
> >Jayson.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "shaun everiss" <shaun.e at xtra.co.nz>
> >To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> >Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 4:17 AM
> >Subject: [DECtalk] mod talker
> >
> >
> > > Hi I have a few questions.
> > > I just downloaded and installed all componants.
> > > I use jaws and hal.
> > > I have a few questions.
> > > How do you record your own voice in the inv tool?
> > > How do you get the good quality voice to select in mod talker?
> > > How do you get mod talker  voice speaking for sapi?
> > > I tried with the control panel /speech/tts page and it said the voice
> > > can not play or something to that effect.
> > > I have the entire 162mb of files on the system as I write this.
> > >
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