[DECtalk] Klatt Speech Synthesizer

jake mcmahan mcmahan.jake at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 07:30:23 EDT 2014


This is a 100 sentence voice called chuck.  I do have it still, I just 
have to grab it off my old pc which I gave to my mother.
On 9/30/2014 6:48 AM, brandon T via Dectalk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ok. I tried it with JAWS before. I also found it to work with NVDA a little bit.
>
> I might try it by using my notetaker to read the sentences from the
> braille display.
>
> Do you by chance have a copy of the voice you made with it please?
>
> Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any assistance
> you are willing to provide.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Brandon Tyson
>
> On 9/30/14, jake mcmahan via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>> I've used it with jaws, and what I did, was just read the sentences from
>> there.  yes, you could probably get away with coppying the file to your
>> note taker, but the only problem with that is, you'd have to make sure
>> it matches the sentence you're reading.  If you do the all in order, I
>> don't think you should have a problem.  However, another disadvantage
>> is, you must remember the sentence you left off on when you begin
>> recording at a later time.
>> On 9/29/2014 7:58 PM, brandon T via Dectalk wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have used CircumReality before. Do you have any tips for quickly
>>> reading the sentences with NVDA please? My thought was to copy the
>>> file onto my notetaker and read them that way, would that work?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any assistance
>>> you are willing to provide.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Brandon Tyson
>>>
>>> On 9/29/14, jake mcmahan via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>> My name is Jake as well.  Jake McMahan.  I'm very much interested in
>>>> speech synths also, any kind.  However, I focus more on the
>>>> concatinative side of things and the tts voices generated by recorded
>>>> speech.  I've aso made my own synthetic voice via model talker and one
>>>> via circum reality.  I mean, that's just me, clat was not my thing.  And
>>>> it was named after the former dennis clat, maker of the original dectalk
>>>> speech synthesizer.
>>>> On 9/29/2014 12:32 PM, jake--- via Dectalk wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> You may recognize my name, but I would like to tell you a little bit
>>>>> about
>>>>> myself. I am 15. I am a totally blind student at the California School
>>>>> for
>>>>> the Blind. I am interested in creating a Klatt synthesizer. The NV
>>>>> Speech
>>>>> Player Project inspired me to do this. Could you please help me to take
>>>>> the first step.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have done research in formant synthesis. I found out that the Cascade
>>>>> formant generates the voiced sounds and the parallel formant generates
>>>>> the
>>>>> unvoiced sounds. Can you please direct me how to learn more?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much!
>>>>>
>>>>> Jake Gross
>>>>>
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