[DECtalk] Any news?

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Wed May 4 10:48:01 EDT 2011


Brace yourselves because I don't think you guys will  like it.  The very 
worst voice is Kit.  I'd do the recording for you  guys but I really don't 
want to be linked with this pour Dectalk quality.   Have fun guys.
 
 
SNOOPI BOTTEN 
 
 
In a message dated 5/4/2011 9:10:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ratguy at insightbb.com writes:

Hi,

Here's a sample text. I assume you can use DECtalk  commands in the text? 
An 
MP3 of the 4.3 speak application performing this  exact text can be found  
at
http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dt43sample.mp3
Now here's the  text.

[:phoneme on]
[:np] [:ra 250]
Hello. This is the factory  default Paul voice.
I'm talking now with this voice since this is what most  people are 
probably 
going to be using. Let's speed it up a bit.
[:ra  300]
This is probably how Jayson's JFW would talk normally. Now let's put  some 
intonation in there.
[:dv pr 250] [:dv sr 50]
Okay, this is how  Jayson used to listen to DECtalk back in the good old 
DOS 
days. With 4.3  and earlier, if you could get used to this which you would 
over time, this  sounds pretty good! It'd take some getting used to again, 
not having had  it for so long.
[:np] [:ra 250]
The rest of this demo was created a few  months ago to compair and test the 
various other factory voices and  several custom voices in different 
DECtalk 
versions.
I will now test  the other voices.
[:nb] I'm Beautiful Betty, the default female  voice.
[:nh] I'm Huge Harry.
[:nd] I'm Doctor Dennis.
[:nf] I'm Frail  Frank.
[:nu] I'm Uppity Ursula.
[:nr] I'm Rough Rita.
[:nw] I'm  Whispering Wendy.
[:nk] and I'm Kit the Kid.
[:np]
Now I'll let the  DECtalk manual describe us.
[:np]       Perfect  Paul           Standard male  voice.
[:nb]       Beautiful Betty Standard female  voice.
[:nh]       Huge Harry      Deep  male voice.
[:nf]       Frail Frank       Older male voice.
[:nk]       Kit  the Kid             Child's voice (about 10  years
old).
[:nr]       Rough Rita     Deep female voice.
[:nu]       Uppity  Ursula   Light female voice.
[:nd]        Doctor Dennis   Breathy male voice.
[:nw]     Whispering Wendy Whispery female voice.

[: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.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corine Bickley"  <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu>
To: "DECtalk Discussions"  <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 7:02  AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Any news?


> HI Jayson,
> I  will do that. Could you suggest some sample sentences to synthesize?
>  We're trying to find a way to put a "demo play" button on the Enable
>  website so people can type in any text they'd like to hear, but our
>  programmer hasn't been able to spend time on that project right now.
>  corine
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Jayson Smith  <ratguy at insightbb.com> 
wrote:
>> Do you have any audio samples  you could share? Maybe I could elaborate 
on
>> what people don't  like. I pretty much know what DT 4.3 sounds like.
>>  Jayson
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From:  "Corine Bickley" <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu>
>> To: "DECtalk  Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May  03, 2011 7:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Any  news?
>>
>>
>>>i meant - i can't hear the  differences, not being so attuned to the
>>> various DT versions.  i can hear ok, but i'm not clear on the
>>> differences in  quality.
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:24 PM,  Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> 
>>>  wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Wo, you  actually got 4.3 working with SAPI? What kind of quality 
>>>>  problems
>>>> are there?
>>>>  Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message  -----
>>>> From: "Corine Bickley"  <corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu>
>>>> To: "DECtalk  Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>> Sent:  Tuesday, May 03, 2011 6:14 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Any  news?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Still  waiting for one of the "old" (not chronologically, just in  
terms
>>>>> of contact with DT) to send some more versions  for testing.
>>>>> 4.3 and 4.67 work in SAPI fine but  preliminary listening results
>>>>> indicate  dissatisfaction.
>>>>>  corine
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Jayson Smith  <ratguy at insightbb.com>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>> Okay, it's broken record time. Anything new  going on with the SAPI
>>>>>>  DECtalk?
>>>>>> Haven't heard anything in a  while.
>>>>>>  Jayson
>>>>>>
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