[DECtalk] List UP?

[Alex H.]

Hi,

First, excellent job! The custom Paul voice in the weather file is
great. It has a lot of inflection and sounds like 4.4, which is pretty
impressive. The test.wav is strange though. It's very buzzy and hard
to understand. Just to clarify, for now, are we just testing the Paul
voice?

The weather sample seems to be very articulate and precise. It doesn't
have any of that slurring of old versions on certain words. This is
great.

Just to hear the sample at a higher rate of speed, can you do the same
text at about 350 wpm to see how it stands up?

I didn't hear any of the soft tones at the end of sentences, and even
ran the file and amplified silences, and it's about 48 dB below
normal, so it's pretty quiet as it is without the code to squash the
humming.

Thanks,

Alex

On 8/29/11, ebruckert Bruckert <edbruckert at gmail.com> wrote:
> First some baseline testing stuff. Do not over test it in other words in the
> beginning this is a rough cut so if we get into too many details or changes
> it will just all become mud. We should only make a few changes at a time,
> the other problem may become differences of opinion especially with some of
> the voices which were never very stable because we never really liked
> exactly what we had. This is an old version of DECtalk so occasionally you
> will hear little homes at the end of things during what should be silence.
> This is a mathematical problem called a limit cycle when we're finished I'll
> add the new code I developed to squelch it. It took us years to figure out a
> way to get rid of it perceptually we never could get rid of it
> mathematically. Lastly I had to change the gain of voicing on the modified
> voice that was sent without going into a long explanation which I can later
> if people want the gains of the cascade vocal track have never ever been
> constant it's a mathematical issue where you're constantly trying to adjust
> them between quantization and overload and we've never been able to
> guarantee them.
> Lastly people can think about singing. The problem is that most SAPI
> applications strip stuff out so I'm looking for suggestions of how we could
> fool it and tell DECtalk that it was supposed to go into phonemic mode so it
> can sing. I don't know what can and  cannot get through the various
> applications and while
>
> Again don't put too much effort in two critical listening at this stage as
> were not fine-tuning it just training 3n where targets are
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:06 PM, jake mcmahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>   On 8/29/2011 11:52 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone the good news is I had a generator the bad news is I had to
>> use it. I'm having trouble with the 2008 free edition of visual C I can't
>> run the debugger. But before I uninstall and reinstall it I want to get
>> this
>> baseline out but it's a little bit painful because I can't run the
>> debugger
>> so I'm doing it by an archaic method. So it'll be out sometime today and
>> then I'll reload visual C.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM, jake mcmahan
>> <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>  On 8/28/2011 11:40 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
>>
>> Ed K okay I'm ready. I have a base tuning of all the voices. So send me
>> the
>> various files to test with and we will try and get some agreement on the
>> voices.
>>
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>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:32 AM, ebruckert Bruckert <edbruckert at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
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>> I was visiting my grandson, back to woek today.....
>>
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>> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Alex H.
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Your message came through. DECTalk is alive and singing. :D
>>
>> Alex
>>  On 8/20/2011 11:22 PM, Doris and Chris wrote:
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>> > Cheers,
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