[DECtalk] DECtalk SAPI

[Alex H.]

Hi Snoopi,

That sounds great, I'd love to type a word in and get cool hidden info
about stuff related to DECTalk.  It's by far the coolest speech
synthesizer out there.

Alex

On 9/20/10, Dectalk at aol.com <Dectalk at aol.com> wrote:
> I think you are asking how I enhance the files?   Well, to my ears, Dectalk
> sounds flat, so does every single music file I ever  work with.  I have lab
> software where I can enhance stuff.  So first I  add in an ever slight echo
> to everything.  I don't want an actual echo, I  just do it enough so
> everything sounds more real.  It makes Dectalk sound  much more human.
>
> Then I have a set of unmarked controls that greatly  effect the base,
> travel, and bring out sounds that you can't normally  hear.  And this also
> helps
> Dectalk sound more human.
>
> Volume drops also help.  Volume drops let me  raise or lower the volume of
> Dectalk which helps create  feeling.
>
> If we buy the kit, I hope I can have a crack at  changing stuff.  I hear
> all this talk on how hard it is to make a female  voice sound human.  Hard
> nothing, I've done it.  So if I can set the  controls in the kit to ever
> slightly echo without an actual echo, and change a  few settings in the
> female
> voices, I know I can make them have human  quality.
>
> I hope to God they don't only have 5.0 because I for  one can't stand it!
> But I was told a few years ago that 4.40 was available  as a kit and it
> comes with instructions and an open dictionary.  I'm hoping  to add cool
> stuff
> to the dictionary before we release it.  I have some way  cool stuff in
> mind.
>
> One is, in honor of Dennis Klatt, I want to set it do  if you type
> "DennisKlatt" as one word, it will tell the history of Dennis  Klatt.  I
> have tones
> of other ideas I hope to add to the dictionary.   And, I want "Alt P" to
> play the message, so it's easier for the blind.  I  feel like I have 200
> items
> I hope I get to add to the dictionary just to make it  more fun.
>
> But this is a company thing, so I might not get to add  anything to the
> dictionary, but I'm hoping I can.  In the 90's I use to  type in weird stuff
> hoping I would stumble on a hidden message from Dennis or  something.  I
> never
> did.  So I'd love to do that stuff just because I  think it would be fun.
>
>
> SNOOPI BOTTEN
>
>
> In a message dated 9/20/2010 8:10:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> ratguy at insightbb.com writes:
>
> How does  the enhanced singing work? Just curious.
> Jayson
>
> ----- Original  Message -----
> From: "ebruckert Bruckert"  <edbruckert at gmail.com>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions"  <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 7:27  AM
> Subject: [DECtalk] DECtalk SAPI
>
>
>>       There was previously done a DECtalk SAPI5 that was done years ago.
>> I  know nothing of the kit mentioned, but the singing capacbility was put
>
>> in
>> by Dennis Klatt early in. We always kept that capacbility  in it and
>> someone
>> would have to deliberately shut it off,  which makes no sense to me. The
>> only
>> chnage was that tthe  phoneme representation chnaged at one point, making
>> older song files  not play without corretion. Earlier I mentioned that I
>> added an  enhqanced singing capability that we could probably get out
>> somehow,  but it signifcantly changes how to program it. If there is
>> interewst I  can tell you more about  it.
>>
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