[DECtalk] Dennis Klatt

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Sat Mar 29 14:38:41 EDT 2008


Dectalk was originally named Klattalk.  Dennis  Klatt, spell it backwards and 
you get "Talk" so you get  "Klattalk".
 
Anyway, I did a "TTS SING" Google search and found  several singing speech 
engines.  I just can't figure out how to download or  buy the software.  The 
samples put Dectalk to shame.
 
 
SNOOPI BOTTEN 
 
 
In a message dated 3/29/2008 11:22:33 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
fmillion at gmail.com writes:

Hey,  Changed the subject so we're on a new thread. Wow, that's
interesting,  never knew that's why Dennis wrote that in. The only
other synth I know of  that can sing is MacinTalk on the Macintosh. As
is there were some  pre-programmed tunes that were set up as voices in
the voice list.  VocalWriter is a tool that harnessed this ability and
offered MIDI-based  precise control over the speech synth to allow it
to sing. I've done a lot  of work with it at
http://speech.themillionweb.net if you're interested. As  for PC-based
and hardware synths, I don't think any other synth has ever  had
inherently-coded singing abilities - most other synths have been  made
to sing simply by setting to monotone and messing with the pitch  and
rate until it kind of sounds decent. DEC-talk still beats them all  for
hardware synths. Correct me if I'm wrong bc I'd love to mess with  any
other synth designed to sing, but far as I know DEC-talk is the  only
hardware-based solution thta can do it!

Flint M

On Sat,  Mar 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Corine  Bickley
<corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu> wrote:
> just a random  question from a dectalk engineer - is it still the case that
> only  dectalk can be programmed (note by note) to sing? i was a student of
>  Dennis Klatt and he would be so pleased to know that people still  enjoy
> using his singing features for dectalk. you all probably know  that dennis
> first incorporated singing controls into dectalk so he  could have his
> synthesizer sing Happy Birthday to his daugher Laura,  right?
> corine  bickley
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