[DECtalk] List UP?
jake mcmahan
mcmahan.jake at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 14:56:47 EDT 2011
On 8/29/2011 2:15 PM, ebruckert Bruckert 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
> <mailto:mcmahan.jake at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto:mcmahan.jake at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:32 AM, ebruckert Bruckert
>>> <edbruckert at gmail.com <mailto:edbruckert at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was visiting my grandson, back to woek today.....
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Alex H.
>>> <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Your message came through. DECTalk is alive and
>>> singing. :D
>>>
>>> Alex
>>> On 8/20/2011 11:22 PM, Doris and Chris wrote:
>>> > I have not seen any messages from this list in
>>> over a week. So I was
>>> > wondering if the list was down or if there is a
>>> problem at my end or
>>> > with my subscription.
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> >
>>> > Doris
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>> take this, for example. This is a weather file.
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> I gotcha man. If anyone can do it, you can dude
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Ed, nice job. The only thing I would have to say is the intonation is
a little off, but that could be changed by a series of parameters
inserted by the user. Nice job dude, keep up the good work.
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