[DECtalk] introducing myself / synth singing

Thu Aug 7 13:56:07 EDT 2008

Well, I have an updated Passion Medley to upload  because I didn't know how 
terrible that actually was,  yuck!

Other than that, I do songs all the time with no way  to share them.  So 
sadly I can be done any time you want.  I was  hoping we could all share stuff on 
an on going bases.  I have stuff by Cher  to fix before I upload it, and I'm 
just always doing stuff.  My server  kicked my music off because of too many 
hits.  And with my not knowing how  to market, I have like 1400 CDs in boxes 
that I can't sell because I know  nothing about marketing.  So I keep hoping to 
get discovered or  something.  I'm down to one concert a year, so I'm trying to 
figure out how  to promote myself.  No clue.

SNOOPI BOTTEN 

In a message dated 8/7/2008 1:17:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ratguy at insightbb.com writes:

Hello,

The three files you mentioned have  been moved to /Talksina in the 
DECtalk archive. This effects the  www.bluegrasspals.com site, and not any 
mirrored copies, unless they have  made similar changes. I'm thinking about 
ways to make the entire archive  available to download at once, but want to 
wait for it to stabilize.  Snoopi and Blake, have you finished all your 
uploads? I'm not asking that  you hurry up if you haven't. I'm just saying 
that, if you haven't, there's  no point in providing a torrent or suchlike, 
since it would quickly become  outdated.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Talksina"  <evvivajaws at libero.it>
To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent:  Wednesday, August 06, 2008 6:52 AM
Subject: [DECtalk] introducing myself /  synth singing

>
> Hello.
> I am an Italian blind  girl, who loves to make synthesizers sing, I
> answered last week to a  post about making the archive in .torrent
> file (I am interested about  it)
> As I wouldn't like someone to think I am such a lurker or  some
> stranger coming to ruin the list's atmosphere...I love to  make
> synthesizers sing. DecTalk first of all, and also the Italian  one,
> but unfortunately that one sings just my language, there's no way  to
> make it sing in other languages, as in dectalk there is not  ability
> to make it sing italian!
> well, to introduce myself in  the audio way,
> I am the author of this:
>  http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/blowing.mp3
> or  this
>  http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/crash_test_dummies.mp3
>  or this
>  
http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk/Miscellaneous/titanic_soundtrack_by_Jois_from_italy.mp3
>  well, Jois (pronounced as Joys) was my old nickname. Very old, but
> now  I am Talksina in every Internet community.
> It would be nice if those  files could be placed in a directory called
> Talksina, on the archive,  but, tell me if you need me to put the ID3
> tags and send them back, to  make it easier I could put all my DecTalk
> productions on a zip file,  then send it by itself or downloadable via
> link or torrent. But, as I  am leaving for holiday  on Saturday,
> coming back the 1st of  September, we'll talk about it in that date.
> Well. Making synthesizers  sing, has always been my passion since
> 2000, and started playing with  DecTalk.
> But unfortunately, I found no Italian-speaking singing synth.  As
> English is not my mother language, the effort for me is double as  I
> must, first of all hear the song's words, then, get the lyrics  from
> Internet and of course the music in Midi or karaoke version.  Then,
> try to find the right pronunciation with phonemes, sometimes I  make
> horrible mistakes, as I am terribly influenced by my Italian  accent,
> such as writing the word "windows" in phonetic alphabet  instead of
> "wixndowz" I wrote "wiyndows". ARGH! So, if I get a  non-English
> pronunciation with English voice,the sound is rediculous.  So, the
> right way I found, is to make DecTalk read the word as it is,  and
> find out the phonemes that match the correct  pronunciation.
> That's why I am making it sing lesser and lesser, I  need such an
> amount of time!
> In 2003 I discovered that my  licensed Italian Loquendo robotic male
> and female voices could sing, I  was just playing with a TTS, made a
> mistake and the 2 words just  sounded with different music notes. It
> looked really as it was  singing. And that was!
> So I started enjoying myself making songs and  tests
> and, the best thing of this synth is that it doesn't need to  convert
> the audio file into mp3 or wav to try if the sound is good, if  there
> are mistakes, it can directly speak, it's sapi5 compliant and  works
> with any TTS-driven software that support synth-specific  commands.
> a sample (italian song) here, just to make you hear what I  am talking 
> about.
>  http://www.audiomontaggi.net/erfinestra/cremonini_demo.mp3
> The trouble  of this synth is that unlike DecTalk, it has no specific
> adjustable  parameters to make it sing, you adjust silence with
> punctuation marks  and writing a letter as many  times as you wish the
> sound to be  long. So, counting that a letter is about 200
> milliseconds, you must  calculate how many milliseconds are needed to
> match whatever note in a  music file, to syncronize voice and music.
> And if nothing fits, you  must play with voice rate parameter
> OK... bye ciao.
>
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