[DECtalk] Sample text

ebruckert Bruckert edbruckert at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 10:00:31 EST 2011


Here you go

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey this works. i don't have the dectalk demo but as weird but it sounds
> like system access can make the voices sound like they do with the normal
> red dwarf files. I don't even have the demo and the screen reader makes
> dectalk change the voices as if it was the demo. but it works.
>
> 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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