[DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK

Corine Bickley corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu
Mon Feb 27 10:39:33 EST 2006


Thank you, Jayson. Your careful comparison is VERY helpful in my little
investigation (to answer a question from a user on a different listserv).
I'll suggest to that user that he join this list, so you and he may be able
to speak directly. I will still appreciate following the discussion.
corine

-----Original Message-----
From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jayson Smith
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:05 AM
To: DECtalk Discussions
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK

Hi,
Replying to myself as I have another discovery.  The word "Who" at the
beginning of a question often triggers the downward inflection.  But, any of
these words as a contraction don't.  The following questions will be spoken
like questions both by my DEC Express and the 4.3 demo.
Where's the beef?
Who's on First?
Why's it always cold outside?
Where'd he come from?
How's that for a question?
When's the next meeting?
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at bellsouth.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK


> 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?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Dectalk at aol.com>
> To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> 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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