[DECtalk] Sample text

Jayson Smith ratguy at insightbb.com
Fri Feb 11 08:18:59 EST 2011


Hi,

Just for kicks, can you make a recording of your DECtalk USB playing that 
file? I'd love to hear it, and I'm sure others would too.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon Misch" <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Sample text


>i even got it to work on my dectalk usb and it didn't sound like 4.40 at 
>all
>
> On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:38 AM, Pitermach wrote:
>
>> couldn't agree more as well. This is why I don't use dectalk in mobile
>> speak...
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 2:56 AM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Sample text
>>
>>
>>> I definitely agree with you there.
>>> Jayson
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Brandon Misch" <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
>>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:07 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Sample text
>>>
>>>
>>>> i think 4.3 sounds best out of all of those.
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Check out this URL. Includes sample.txt which is the sample text I
>>>>> posted
>>>>> earlier, and files 43.wav, 461.wav, and 464.wav with version 4.3, 4.61
>>>>> and
>>>>> 4.64 respectively synthesizing the text.
>>>>> http://www.bluegrasspals.com/decsamples.zip
>>>>> Jayson
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>> From: "Brandon Misch" <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
>>>>> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 5:21 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Sample text
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> hey can someone put this into mp3 so we can see how the newer 
>>>>>> versions
>>>>>> handle this stuff?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've created a sample text for testing. This speaks very briefly 
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> each
>>>>>>> of the nine factory default voices, then speaks a few sentences each
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> several of the voices from the DECtalk rendition of Red Dwarf. The 
>>>>>>> Red
>>>>>>> Dwarf
>>>>>>> voices were designed to be used with DECtalk 4.3 and don't sound 
>>>>>>> quite
>>>>>>> right
>>>>>>> in 4.61 or 4.64 in some cases. In general, my opinion is that 
>>>>>>> several
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> factory voices sound different in the 4.6X versions than they did in
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> Digital versions. For example, Wendy doesn't, in fact, whisper.
>>>>>>> Anyway,
>>>>>>> here's the text.
>>>>>>> Jayson
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [:phoneme on]
>>>>>>> [:np] [:ra 250]
>>>>>>> Hello. This is the factory default Paul voice. I will now test the
>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>> voices.
>>>>>>> [:nb] I'm Betty, the default female voice.
>>>>>>> [:nh] I'm Huge Harry.
>>>>>>> [:nd] I'm Doctor Dennis.
>>>>>>> [:nf] I'm Frank.
>>>>>>> [:nu] I'm Ursula.
>>>>>>> [:nr] I'm Rita.
>>>>>>> [:nw] I'm Whispering Wendy.
>>>>>>> [:nk] and I'm Kit the Kid.
>>>>>>> [:np]
>>>>>>> Okay, let's test a few custom voices.
>>>>>>> [:nf] [:dv br 0 la 0 sr 100 hr 100 ap 150 pr 95] [:ra 220] This is 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> voice
>>>>>>> of Rimmer from Red Dwarf.
>>>>>>> Lister, we are being tested! I don't know what to do!
>>>>>>> [:nf] [:ra 240] [:dv br 0 hs 95 ap 100 as 100 pr 220 hr 30 sr 30] 
>>>>>>> This
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> Lister.
>>>>>>> Rimmer! Come over here and help me with this new speech synthesizer!
>>>>>>> [:np] [:dv as 0 bf 0 la 20 nf 00 ri 100 sm 0 hr 0 sr 0] [:ra 220] 
>>>>>>> This
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> Holly.
>>>>>>> This is an important announcement. All persons aboard this ship are 
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> report to the voice calibration office at once. That is all.
>>>>>>> [:np] [:dv br 100 lx 100 bf 100 hr 100 sr 100 as 100 qu 100 ap 110 
>>>>>>> pr
>>>>>>> 150
>>>>>>> sx
>>>>>>> 1 la 0]  [:ra 210] This is the voice of the toaster.
>>>>>>> I don't know where this voice calibration office is. Does anyone 
>>>>>>> want
>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>> toast?
>>>>>>> [:np] [:dv sm 1 hs 90  br 0 ri 0 la 0] [:ra 250] I'm the cat.
>>>>>>> Who says my voice needs to be calibrated? I want fishies!
>>>>>>> [:nd] [:dv as 0 bf 0 la 20 nf 00 ri 100 hr 0 sr 0] [:ra 220] I'm 
>>>>>>> Queeg
>>>>>>> 500.
>>>>>>> None of you have any credit, so you may not use the voice 
>>>>>>> calibrator.
>>>>>>> [:nu] [:dv as 1 bf 10 la 30 nf 10 ri 100 sm 50 hr 100 sr 20 ap 130]
>>>>>>> [:ra
>>>>>>> 240] I'm the newer voice of Holly.
>>>>>>> I'm picking something up. It's another ship. Its name is Deck Talk 
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>> something very close. They have been conducting an experiment on us
>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>> time. That would explain why we've been saying all these silly 
>>>>>>> things.
>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>> knew I was having trouble finding a record of any voice calibration
>>>>>>> office
>>>>>>> on Red Dwarf.
>>>>>>>
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