[DECtalk] the cause of electronic beeps in dectalk?

Mohamed malhajamy at gmail.com
Sun May 24 19:11:11 EDT 2015


No way. Keep it on. I won't be bored at all. :D

On 05/24/15 07:08 PM, Alex H. via Dectalk wrote:
> Wait wait...
>
> Is this some hackery with Wine to get windows executables to function
> on mac, then doing a .speechvoice?
>
> I think that approach will have plenty of lag and generally, will add
> to OSX's general sluggish behavior, especially in Yosemite. Would be
> willing to take this off-list as it may get technical/bore others lol
>
> alex
>
> On 5/24/15, Carlos Fernandez via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>> I will begin work today. It may take some time.
>>
>> Carlos
>> On 5/24/2015 12:23, Edward Bruckert via Dectalk wrote:
>>> U would love it. It does a bad job so many things wrong I won't go into it
>>> now.
>>> On May 24, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Carlos Fernandez via Dectalk
>>> <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I assume you dislike the voices available on OS X for voiceOver. If you
>>>> would like, I could allow dectalk to function with voiceOver. The system
>>>> has precedent, but is not yet written. Would you like me to create this
>>>> system? Also, what problems do you have with the macintalk system now?
>>>>
>>>> Carlos
>>>> On 5/24/2015 08:14, Edward Bruckert via Dectalk wrote:
>>>>> The limit cycles can not ne stopped or predicted they don not always
>>>>> occur.
>>>>> OI xan up with a method ro reduce them by estimating the time delay ro
>>>>> "silence" can them force the to zero otherwise they would continue
>>>>> forever,
>>>>> Thanks tom I'm still ticking\my big frustration is the text
>>>>> pre-processing ob apples voice is terrible
>>>>> but I do not think anyone cares,
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>>>>> On May 23, 2015, at 9:19 PM, Alex H. via Dectalk
>>>>> <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It depends on the vowels at the end of words, sorta. It also seems
>>>>>> random. As other have stated, it's a math miscalculation. The newer
>>>>>> versions 4.61 etc) don't do this to my knowledge.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alex
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/23/15, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Although I wonder why it's not a fixed beep, the pitch changes and
>>>>>>> something I don't hear it at all.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 05/23/15 05:04 PM, Tom Kopec via Dectalk wrote:
>>>>>>>> DECtalk software or hardware?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ed is right, the fixed-point math can result in a +- 1 bit
>>>>>>>> oscillation.. though I admit I never noticed it when I was working
>>>>>>>> with DECtalk back in the 1990s (if I did, I would have fixed it!)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Good to hear from you Ed as well.. hope things are going as well as
>>>>>>>> then can..
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...tom
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 5/23/2015 12:00 PM, dectalk-request at bluegrasspals.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Message: 1
>>>>>>>>> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 17:46:13 -0400
>>>>>>>>> From: Mohamed <malhajamy at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> To: DECtalk <Dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>>>>>>> Subject: [DECtalk] the cause of electronic beeps in dectalk?
>>>>>>>>> Message-ID: <555FA3A5.7030200 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi guys, so, I'm wondering. What exactly causes the faint
>>>>>>>>> electronic
>>>>>>>>> beeps at the end of phrases in dectalk?
>>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Message: 2
>>>>>>>>> Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 06:22:54 -0400
>>>>>>>>> From: Edward Bruckert <edbruckert at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> To: DECtalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] the cause of electronic beeps in dectalk?
>>>>>>>>> Message-ID: <18FCA6D6-CEDF-40F0-9C89-54D7935097CC at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> what your hearing is valled a limit cycle. The filters can
>>>>>>>>> sometimes
>>>>>>>>> when feed with zeros oscillate in the low order
>>>>>>>>> bits in fixed point arithmetric. Ps I an now blind myself.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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