[DECtalk] Happy Birthday song

[Corine Bickley]

If anyone has the original, Ed Bruckert would. Let's see if he replies.
corine

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net> wrote:
> Brandon,
> I don't know if a recording exists of Dennis Klat having Dectalk sing Happy
> Birthday to his daughter. However, here's the version of Happy Birthday that
> Snoopi programmed with Dectalk and mixed with music.
>
> http://pastorsnoopi.twigs76.com/songs/HAPPY BIRTHDAY.mp3
>
> Blake
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Misch
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 7:59 AM
> To: DECtalk Discussions
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] File association problem
>
> is there a recording of this around?
>
> On Feb 7, 2011, at 7:14 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
>
>
>        Indeed it was happy birthday, son to his daughter Laura. Shortly
> after that someone in our group had a birthday so we programmed the DTC 01
> to call him at three o'clock in the morning to wish him a happy birthday.
>
>        The speech program was really meant as a test program and not an
> application. It is dumb as a stump and assumes any file fed to it is ASCII
> text.
>
>
>        On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alex H. <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>                Happy birthday from Dennis Klatt. He introduced singing into
> DT
>                because he wanted to say happy birthday to his daughter in a
> special
>                way. That's what I've heard.
>
>                I really can't comment on setting speak to open .en files
> with win7 as
>                I just use the builtin open function in speak directly.
> However, wasnt
>                there a playdec program written some years ago for the 4.3
> program
>                that would dump a txt or .dec file into speak by copying the
> file and
>                runnig speak? I think with a few lines of code changed, it
> should work
>                for .en files too.
>
>                HTH.
>                alex
>
>
>                On 2/6/11, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>                > isn't it that song about poisoning pigions in the park?
> that was on an issue
>                > of playback magazine from 1991.
>                >
>                > On Feb 6, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Flint Million (iPod) wrote:
>                >
>                >> The dos tools came with "moonlight in Vermont" in the
> demo app. That's the
>                >> first song I ever heard.
>                >>
>                >> Sent from my iPod
>                >>
>                >> On Feb 6, 2011, at 5:46 PM, "Blake Roberts"
> <beroberts at hughes.net> wrote:
>                >>
>                >>> I know the answer to Ed's trivia question. I'll let you
> guys keep
>                >>> guessing
>                >>> for a bit. No reason I should spoil this fun triviagame.
>                >>> Blake
>                >>> -----Original Message-----
>                >>> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>                >>> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of
> ebruckert
>                >>> Bruckert
>                >>> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 3:47 PM
>                >>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>                >>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] File association problem
>                >>>
>                >>> Hello, I can't help you very well with changing file
> associations, but
>                >>> speak
>                >>> should be very happy with the.txt file that just tells
> it to you now
>                >>> treated
>                >>> as normal ASCII text.
>                >>>
>                >>> Trivia question for you all;
>                >>>
>                >>>
>                >>> What was the first song DECtalk saying and why.
>                >>>
>                >>>
>                >>>
>                >>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Blake Roberts
> <beroberts at hughes.net>
>                >>> wrote:
>                >>>
>                >>>
>                >>>   All,
>                >>>   I wrote about this problem before. I am writing again
> because no
>                >>> response
>                >>>   has been received.
>                >>>
>                >>>   I use the Dectalk 4.40 speak window to program songs.
> This version
>                >>> of the
>                >>>   speak window plays files with an .en extension. On my
> new Windows 7
>                >>>   computer, I am having problems setting up the EN file
> association.
>                >>>
>                >>>   Whenever I tell Windows to use speak.exe to launch EN
> files (either
>                >>> via
>                >>>   properties, change or the "Open With" dialog], Windows
> automatically
>                >>> assumes
>                >>>   I want to use Windows Media Center for this file
> association. I
>                >>> remember in
>                >>>   Windows XP, there was a way to edit a file type
> manually. I have not
>                >>> yet
>                >>>   found a similar tool in Windows 7.
>                >>>
>                >>>   I hope someone on-list has a suggestion for modifying
> the Dectalk EN
>                >>> file
>                >>>   association in Windows 7. I need help!
>                >>>   Blake
>                >>>
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