[DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
I've reached the following conclusions.  I experimented with DECtalk 4.3
demo, creating a wav file.  I used your four questions and invented twelve
more.  Questions starting with How, Where, Why, what and when had a downward
inflection, like a sentence.  Others had an upward inflection like a
question.  My DECtalk Express using version 4.2CD of the firmware handles
these questions in the same way.  To hear DECtalk 4.3 asking these
questions, get the following file.
http://www.bluegrasspals.com/questions.wav
Here are the questions.  Note that in the fourteenth question there is a
comma, which makes it still sound like a question.  The fifteenth question
is just the second part of the fourteenth question but is still spoken like
a sentence.
Have you eaten yet?
How many of your brothers still live at home?
How many years of school did it take to become a nurse?
Where can I get my suit cleaned?
How do you want your hair cut?
Would you like to keep asking me questions?
Should I go to the doctor?
How much wood should I bring home?
Isn't she beautiful?
Where is Dennis sitting?
Why does this computer keep crashing?
When will I get to see that movie?
Who's on First?
If I go to sleep tonight, when will I wake up?
When will I wake up?
What is the square root of two?

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Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:12 AM
Subject: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK


>
>     1.  Have you eaten yet?
>     2.  How many of your brothers still live at  home?
>     3.  How many years of school did it take to become a  nurse?
>     4.  Where can I get my suit cleaned?
> Part of my work promted me to ask you all  a Dectalk question.  My
Colleague
> wanted to know how my Dectalk handled the  above questions.  For the most
part
> the inflections went up in the middle  of these questions rather than the
> end.  I have two questions for the  group.
>
> 1.  How does Dectalk Express handle these  questions?
>
> 2.  In the manual it says something about the  "^" changing how things are
> emphosized.  I think it's the ^ anyway.   How do you use it and would it
change
> how questions come  out?
>
> I think there are other symbos that change how  things are said, Does
anyone
> know what they are?  I used this stuff twice  in my life but I forget what
> they are.  I just remember not being impressed  enough to use them.  But
now I'm
> trying to remember what they were and what  they did.
>
>
> SNOOPI
>
>


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