[DECtalk] Getting Dectalk To Sing Independent Vocal Parts

[Tony Baechler]

Hi,

I am far from an expert on DEC-Talk singing, but I had little problem 
with adding background music to two separate voices.  I took a text 
file done by Jayson and converted it to wave with the demo.  I then 
changed th voice to a female and repeated the process with a 
different wave filename.  I loaded both files into Sound Forge and 
mixed them, one on each channel.  I saved the mixed parts as another 
wave file.  Finally, I recorded MIDI background music and mixed it 
with the master singing wave file.  It was slightly out of sync with 
the music but I fixed that by using the time stretch feature.  By 
adjusting the singing a little here and there, I got it to match 
reasonably well.  I won't say that it's perfect but I was 
impressed.  If you aren't doing background music, I would think the 
best bet is to record two individual voice parts as separate files 
and mix them via something like Sound Forge.  I think also that if 
you want background music, go for it.  It really isn't that hard to 
do, at least I didn't think so.  Again, I didn't create the original 
text file and I am far from an expert.  I don't know how to do the 
phonemes and all of that anyway.  I can read the manual to learn and 
I probably will one of these days.

At 02:31 PM 12/29/06 -0500, you wrote:
>and otherwise it'll go all out of sync. I am not going to even try =
>having background music, because I know it's going to be harder then =
>having two voices with there own parts.

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Tony Baechler
Baechler Productions


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