[DECtalk] Status of the archive
Tony Baechler
tony at baechler.net
Thu Sep 24 01:30:44 EDT 2009
It's interesting that you mention this. As you say, there are other
synths represented. As far as I'm aware, it has never been limited to
only the DECtalk. I know of at least one thing done with the Apple II
Echo and one with the Doubletalk. I have several demos of a synth
called Mbrola which I was thinking of adding. Mbrola can sing and
produces good speech quality. The problem is that it isn't based on
SAPI and requires all text to be sent as phonemes. I don't know if it
runs on Windows or not. If people want to use other synths, that's fine
with me. The archive name won't change for historical interest, but I
would be glad to split off other synths into their own archives or as a
new section of the current archive. I'm fairly sure that Mbrola
requires Linux.
On 9/23/2009 12:07 AM, shaun everiss wrote:
> well I think it has, no more dectalk externals and the dectalk bar the access32 system is becoming a quite old system.
> I think the archive should still exist for those that want to get it, but I suspect there will probably be no real contributers.
> I think its time to change the archive, who said that dectalk could be the only thing used.
> I wander if one should encourage other users of different synths to do music in those things and put it up.
> I know there are other synths up there but still I wander.
>
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