[DECtalk] Dennis Klatt

[Corine Bickley]

i have laura's email and her mom's, mary, somewhere, and will ask them if
they'd like to join this thread - thx to all on for the interesting tidbits!
corine

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Flint Million <fmillion at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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