[DECtalk] A history question

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I have 5.0 but I promised never to give it out,  sorry.  I will say it's 
bad.
 
 
SNOOPI BOTTEN 
 
 
In a message dated 1/30/2011 8:52:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
bmisch2002 at gmail.com writes:

i'm sure  someone has a version of it. 

On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:38 PM, Jayson Smith  wrote:

> I don't think there was ever a 5.0 demo at GW. I'm  surprised nobody 
seems to 
> have a copy of it laying around.
>  Jayson
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brandon  Misch" <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions"  <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 8:36  PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] A history question
> 
>  
>> wasn't that the demo that used to be on gw's site? if it was,  it's now 
>> found at dectalk.com
>> 
>> On Jan 30,  2011, at 8:28 PM, Alex H. wrote:
>> 
>>> I only wish I  could grab DT 5.0, I then would have all the demo
>>> programs. :(  but it's just tantelizingly too late. Fonix used to have
>>> the  demos on the old website.
>>> 
>>>  alex
>>> 
>>> On 1/30/11, Brandon Misch  <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> if you want to hear a  reading edge machine, you can find a podcast of 
>>>>  that
>>>> over at blindcooltech.com i bring this up because  that had dectalk 4.0
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 30, 2011,  at 5:22 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>  I think the record Ed refers to is a collection of speech  synthesis
>>>>> demonstrations that Dennis put together. He  provided brief narration
>>>>>  before
>>>>> each demoSomeone converted that record to an  old sound format (.au). 
I
>>>>>  think
>>>>> it's on dectalk.com somewhere. I took the .au  version, converted to 
>>>>> mp3,
>>>>>  changed the file name and listed Dennis Klatt as the artist. If  
anyone
>>>>> would
>>>>> like to hear the  mp3 version of Dennis's record, write me off-list.
>>>>>  
>>>>> Like Brandon, I would love to hear any other  recordings of Dennis 
that
>>>>> exist, or recordings of  older Dectalks.
>>>>> Blake
>>>>>  
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>  From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>>>>>  [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Brandon  
Misch
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:56  PM
>>>>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>>>>>  Subject: Re: [DECtalk] A history question
>>>>>  
>>>>> can you send what you can? or is that recording all  that you have 
and 
>>>>> are
>>>>> there  any recordings of the old dectalks from the 80's besides  that
>>>>> record?
>>>>>  
>>>>> On Jan 30, 2011, at 1:45 PM, ebruckert Bruckert  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>> He recorde alot before his voice went. By 1982 it was  very
>>>>> different. And I don't have a lot of backups as  the medu=iums 
changed.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Brandon  Misch
>>>>> <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>> his voice didn't sound that bad from that record  about
>>>>> speech systems from the 30's to the 80's unless  that wasn't him.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 30,  2011, at 9:56 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>> All the DECtalk voices have  been there since 1982.
>>>>> In fact the Dennis voice was  modeled by Dennis Klatt at the time to 
be 
>>>>>  his
>>>>> closest match to his own voice as he could. When I  first met him his
>>>>> natural
>>>>>  voice was already deteriorating due to his throat  cancer.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The DTC 01 does try  to hear touchstones while at
>>>>> speaking it tries to  cancel out the outgoing sound from the ingoing 
>>>>>  sound
>>>>> and in old systems used to work pretty good.  Whether changes in 
>>>>> telephony
>>>>>  have made that more difficult I don't know.
>>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:58  AM, Jayson Smith
>>>>> <ratguy at insightbb.com>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Okay, this is getting way out there, but
>>>>> when did  DECtalk get the eighth and
>>>>> ninth voices? I remember  hearing a sample of
>>>>> DECtalk in I think it  was
>>>>> Dialogue Magazine on flexible disk.  My
>>>>> parents had a copy. I heard the  piece
>>>>> in 1989, not sure when it was actually  done
>>>>> though. At that point,  DECtalk
>>>>> only had seven voices, from how I  understand
>>>>> it. Dennis and Wendy  weren't
>>>>> present.
>>>>> Then in  November of 1989 we got our Kurzweil
>>>>> Personal Reader  with DECtalk in
>>>>> it. All nine voices were there, in  pretty
>>>>> much the same form they kept  until
>>>>> Digital became Compaq and Force got hold  of
>>>>> DECtalk. I think the version  on
>>>>> the Kurzweil was something older than  4.0.
>>>>> While the voices sounded a  lot
>>>>> alike, there were some  pronunciation
>>>>> differences.
>>>>>  
>>>>> We got our first DECtalk PC running  version
>>>>> 4.0 in mid 1993, and our  first
>>>>> DECtalk Express in mid  1995.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Over all, I'd have to  say my favorite
>>>>> DECtalk version is 4.2CD, the  version
>>>>> that's running on all our DECtalk  Expresses.
>>>>> 4.3 is excellent too, and  it's
>>>>> all over the place in the DECtalk  Archive,
>>>>> thanks to the speak43  program
>>>>> making the rounds. From what I heard of  4.4
>>>>> in the demo sent to this  list
>>>>> yesterday, it sounds pretty good. I'm  not
>>>>> exactly sure what version  of
>>>>> DECtalk Access32 uses, but by then  there
>>>>> were a few changes. We got our  copy
>>>>> of Access32 in mid 1998. In particular,  the
>>>>> B sound, as in the words  bin,
>>>>> bye, and bag, almost had an extra sound  like
>>>>> it was trying to put an r  in
>>>>> there. Not quite sure how to describe  it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think my least favorite  version is 4.61.
>>>>> Don't know if I ever heard  4.63.
>>>>> I think 4.64 sounds kind of weird, a  bit
>>>>> sluggish or something. From what  I
>>>>> heard of it, I think DECtalk 5  sounded
>>>>> better than 4.64, though not as  good
>>>>> as the Digital versions.
>>>>>  
>>>>> On a somewhat related note, a few years  ago
>>>>> I purchased a DTC01 on  eBay.
>>>>> It's running DECtalk 2.0 from July 1984,  and
>>>>> you can tell it. Not sure  how
>>>>> many voices it has. It's pretty much  just
>>>>> been sitting around  collecting
>>>>> dust, unfortunately. I thought I might  use
>>>>> some of its telephone
>>>>>  functionality, but the DTC01 had some
>>>>> limitations I  didn't know about until
>>>>> I already had it, E.G. can't  detect
>>>>> touchtones while speaking,  can't
>>>>> automatically detect hangups, etc. So  that
>>>>> never happened.
>>>>>  Jayson
>>>>> 
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