[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:
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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 <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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>     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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