[DECtalk] DecTalk can speak Italian, but it's rediculous!!!

GUI Access guiaccess at covad.net
Fri Aug 22 21:15:32 EDT 2008


At 6:55 PM -0700 8/22/2008, Raymond Grote wrote:
>And when I was saying about recordings of humans rather than using formant
>synthesis, I was referring to the general population of newer synths, not
>necessarily newer Dectalk. I haven't been able to hear what Fonix has done
>recently, so I cannot say from experience)


Are you referring to FonixTalk 6.0?  Fonix 
renamed the product from DECtalk to FonixTalk. 
From the literature it appears as though this is 
still formant TTS.


>Force computers forced Dectalk to sound bad, that's how I see it.


No, they just didn't know what they were doing.

GUI Access


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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "GUI Access" <guiaccess at covad.net>
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>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] DecTalk can speak Italian, but it's rediculous!!!
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>At 1:24 PM -0700 8/22/2008, Raymond Grote wrote:
>>Ah, that's why Dectalk 4.6 sounded so different?
>>I'd love to see what Dectalk would've sounded like now if they hadn't
>>replaced it. Why do people always have to use recorded samples of humans
>>now, just to create something natural that has virtually no flexibility?
>>This is why I just test synths now, I'm not that serious about them. Maybe
>>one day the average person will be able to freely create his/her own tts
>>voices in a way that is accessible with a screen reader! Probably going to
>>be a long wait though...
>
>
>DECtalk 4.6 does not use recorded samples of
>humans.  For that matter, neither does DECtalk
>5.0.  In fact, no version of DECtalk does this.
>DECtalk is a formant based text-to-speech system.
>DECtalk 4.6 sounds different because Force
>Computers "improved" the phoneme and the vocal
>tract portions of the synthesizer.  I use the
>term "improved" very loosely because I don't feel
>the results were an improvement at all.
>
>Fonix tried to undo some of the improvements that
>Force Computers introduced but there are still
>known bugs in the VTM.  I've always suspected
>that all Fonix ever received was the Force
>Computers' 4.61 source code and that anything
>earlier is lost.  Otherwise it would have been
>trivial to restore the D.E.C.-sounding voices.
>
>GUI Access
>
>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "piotr machacz" <pitermach at gmail.com>
>>To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 2:41 AM
>>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] DecTalk can speak Italian, but it's rediculous!!!
>>
>>
>>well. It's not something complete but here's how the voice of dectalk
>>was changing.
>>in v 4.3, the voices wer nice and the singing was cool close to a human.
>>in 4.4, the voices went through some modefications but they kept their
>>sound normal, but when singing the phonemes have more metalic robotic
>>sound.
>>in 4.6, simply to say when force computers took dectalk over, rediculus!
>>every thing was rediculus, the voices wer synthetic, the whispering
>>wendy decided to speak not whisper etc.
>>
>>On 8/22/08, Arnaud <arnaudb at netcava.net> wrote:
>>>   french is also completly ridiculous, it's like a german teenager trying
>>>   to speak french at school.
>>>
>>>   also looking for phonems dt references for french....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   --------------------
>>>   Arnaud de Bonald - Paris France - WeBlog: http://www.echo-on.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   Talksina a écrit :
>>>>   Hi.
>>>>   I found the software in DecTalk archive, it's called
>>>>   dectalk4.6.4.zip, there is also the Italian speaking demo!
>>>>   The voice is very very rediculous
>>>>   but it's fun!
>>>>   Now...someone has the multi-language phoneme reference? Thanks!
>>>>   I'd try to have fun with this new toy, who cares if it's rediculous,
>>>>   right excuse to play rediculous songs!
>>>>
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