[DECtalk] List UP?

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

Here are my initial impressions. Haven't read all my mail today, so somebody 
may have already made these comments.

It sounds imho a lot like the older DECtalks, but in my opinion, and this is 
just that, an opinion, the D and T sounds have a sort of delay that's way, 
way too long. For a worst case example of this, listen to what happens in 
the weather forecast with the word "Saturday." It sounds almost silly.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ebruckert Bruckert" <edbruckert at gmail.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] List UP?


> 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:
>
>>   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:
>>
>>  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
>> > 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>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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