[DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK

[Matthew Horspool]

Hi,

The full DECtalk version can be used by third-party applications such as 
Screen Readers, whereas the demo programs cannot.  The full versions 
also make the source speech DLL's available if you know where to look.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Dectalk at aol.com>
To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK



Thanks so much!  My colleague Corine is now on  this list and so I 
thought it
was a good question to ask.  I just have my  communication device, plus 
I've
never heard or seen a Dectalk Express, so that  was a treat for me.

Say, my friend Dave reminded me that the Dectalk on my  CD is just a 
demo.
What is a full software version like?  All I  ever get for my work is 
the demo
speak windows.  To me, they are like a  full version because they never 
expire
and they read any size file.  So I  forget that they are demos.  So what 
does
a full version do that the demo  won't?

I probably could get a full version but I really have  no need for one. 
I'm
just curious as to what it is and why you would need  it when the demo 
does it
all?


SNOOPI



In a message dated 2/26/2006 11:23:32 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
ratguy at bellsouth.net writes:

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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