[DECtalk] Happy Birthday song
Jayson Smith
ratguy at insightbb.com
Thu Feb 10 13:06:21 EST 2011
Hi,
I wouldn't suggest attaching wav or even MP3 files to messages sent to this
list, since this list has a size limit of 40K. One reason for this is to
avoid unintentionally filling up mailboxes with large messages the people
might not even want. If you have something like Dropbox, Sendspace, or a
webserver I'd suggest placing the samples there. If not, I'd be happy to
provide space on my server for the storage of these files, and have you link
to them in messages to this list. If you'd like to take this route, please
get back with me.
As for sample texts to be synthesized, I could probably create some, testing
all nine factory voices and a few custom voices. I know some of the commands
changed somewhere between 4.3 and 4.6X. Will this new version use the 4.6X
commands or revert to the older commands? There are many text examples of
singing and other goofiness available at the DECtalk archive, however, most
of these were designed for DECtalk 4.3.
Jayson
----- Original Message -----
From: "ebruckert Bruckert" <edbruckert at gmail.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Happy Birthday song
> Okay I have some news. I solve the problem of the DECtalk 4.7 install, so
> now I can send all of you some 4.7 sound files. This version create.wave
> files and should they just be attached how should I send them and do I
> need
> to convert them.
>
> I think we will have to do some work to get this where we want it, but
> let's
> send out some sound files first and get some initial reactions. I will use
> the Dennis voice as I know I want to change some of the settings on Paul's
> voice. As far as the songs go I got a do some digging, I tried to keep all
> these things from computer to computer and hopefully they didn't get lost.
>
> I would appreciate getting some text that people would like me to
> synthesize
> and I'll work on it later today.
>
> As another bit of trivia about developing DECtalk we were really pushing
> the
> limits back then. Doing a divide is very costly at that time. In all of
> DECtalk there is only one divide which was commented with the only
> essential
> divide. The signal processing chip that performed the vocal tract model
> function head 128 words on one page of memory and 16 on another, that was
> it. And we could not do a divide in that chip because it didn't divide by
> subtracting the number over and over again until it got to zero counting
> how
> many loops.
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Corine Bickley
> <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu
>> wrote:
>
>> 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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