[DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
Corine Bickley
corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu
Mon Feb 27 13:22:19 EST 2006
Thank you! Very interesting. I've always wondered why people have such
different opinions about the intelligibility of DECtalk.
corine
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[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Horspool
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 11:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
Hi,
It's up on the DECtalk archive, and a direct URL is
http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/dectalk4.3.zip
Note that that's a Sean Randall distribution and so it might not have
exactly the same files as the DEC distribution all that time ago.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Corine Bickley" <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu>
To: "'DECtalk Discussions'" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
Is the 4.3 version available to anyone interested? How could I get a
copy? I
work in research and teaching, and often have things I'd like to try out
(I
need wav files generated) by having subjects listen and evaluate.
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[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jayson Smith
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 4:00 AM
To: DECtalk Discussions
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] THE QUESTION MARK
Hi,
As I understand it, the demo programs are produced so that potential
clients
can evaluate DECtalk to see if it meets their needs, from a quality of
speech etc. prospective. I assume that a full version would maybe be a
Speak window but also contain libraries and other files so that DECtalk
could be interfaced directly with other programs. The demo, at least
version 4.3, will read a file up to about 60K in size. Also, version
4.3
lets you convert the text into a wav file which is very nice! Version
4.6.1
or is it 4.61 won't let you do that, and I happen to have a copy of the
4.6.4 demo and it also won't convert to wav.
Jayson.
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From: <Dectalk at aol.com>
To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:00 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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