[DECtalk] interesting discovery

[jake mcmahan]

Gonna clear a couple things up.  The microsoft mary thing was a project 
that microsoft underwent a long time ago called whistler. Whistler was 
designed to sing songs just like vocaloid, but it was only a lab 
project.  This is why no other songs for mike and mary can be found, 
just those three.  And in the whistler engine, they were mark and 
melony.  And the synth singing freer was flinger or some sort, could 
have been the liricos system, which flinger is bassed off of.  As for 
the tbrn thing, I think that was a vocoder.
On 5/24/2014 10:30 AM, Carlos Fernandez wrote:
> I currently haven't taken much more than a cursory glance at the 
> singing mechanism. You can find the instructions for the U.S. national 
> anthem in the sing.bat file, however, and use this to create new songs.
>
> Carlos
> On 5/23/2014 16:49, Green Gables Fan wrote:
>> Hi Carlos,
>> Interesting you brought this up, because I was curious on how to make 
>> other speech synthesisers sing. So far, I distributed a quick 
>> demonstration for eloquence, Orpheus, and now Vocaloid. However, I 
>> know that Microsoft Mary can sing. How about Willow Pond? There are a 
>> couple of speech synthesisers that I cannot identify. One was singing 
>> Frair jacque in the key of B-flat Major with counterpoint rounds. It 
>> certainly wasn't DECtalk. Then there was another one that was singing 
>> TBRN. If you want links to the stuff I can upload them. They should 
>> be in the archive though.
>> Also, how do you make SAM sing, or is this just like Orpheus? I'll 
>> definitely take a look O:-)
>> On 23/05/2014 13:43, Carlos Fernandez wrote:
>>> I was looking around for those old synth demos (if anyone has them, 
>>> please let me know) and found some recordings from the SAM 
>>> synthesizer that predates dectalk by about two years. It is 
>>> interesting because, not only is it an old software synth, but I 
>>> caught it singing. I have placed these files in the synthesizers 
>>> folder in the BTSync share. But, more interesting is that SAM has 
>>> been recoded in C for windows systems, so you can make it speak, 
>>> sing, and all sorts of interesting things. I have placed it in the 
>>> software folder in the BTSync share. Have fun.
>>>
>>> Carlos
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