[DECtalk] Dennis Klatt

[John B. Eulenberg]

Before it was Klattalk, it was MITtalk.  I was having a drink with 
Dennis Klatt in San Francisco in May, 1978.  I noted that his name was 
"talk" spelled backwards (more or less). He claimed not to have ever 
recognized that. I was surprised. Shortly after that, he changed the 
name of MITtalk to "Klattalk", a palindrome.

John Eulenberg



Dectalk at aol.com wrote:

> 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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