[DECtalk] History of Gnuspeech

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

Is this backup of Gnuspeech or DECtalk? If DECtalk, obviously I'd love, 
love, love to have anything you could send!

Jayson

On 10/26/2015 1:01 PM, Edward Bruckert via Dectalk wrote:
> I found a backup circa 2004 of everything so what would\people like
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>> On Oct 25, 2015, at 5:35 AM, Tony Baechler via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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>> I got this email directly from the author, David Hill.  This might shed light on some things, such as the 1991 copyright date and the less than outstanding quality.
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>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: 	Re: [orca-list] Gnuspeech
>> Date: 	Sat, 24 Oct 2015 08:53:49 -0700
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>> Hi Tony,
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>> I am the project admin for the GNU project "gnuspeech" which was originally
>> developed by a U of Calgary spin-off company I started with several students
>> and graduate students, based on my long-standing research on speech
>> recognition and synthesis. The work was donated to Richard Stallman's Free
>> Software Foundation and turned into a full GPL GNU project when NeXT
>> Computer folded (NeXT eventually returning to its roots in Apple along with
>> Steve Jobs).
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>> It is very gratifying to see your interest in the software. I have been
>> listening to some of your demos -- thanks for making them.
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>> I notice that the speech rate is much higher than normal speech rate. I
>> guess this is usual when you are creating speech for assistive purposes.
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>> I shall watch developments with interest and would be very happy to try to
>> answer any questions you may have.
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>> I have posted to the Orca list a couple of times already (actually two
>> duplicates), but my posts have not appeared (so far) even though I joined
>> the list.
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>> You may be interested in this paper describing an assistive device that was
>> developed in my university lab:
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>> http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill/papers/ieee-touch-n-talk-1988.pdf
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>> It provided proprioceptive and tactile cues that substituted for the visual
>> cues used by normally sighted people, as well as speech and a variety of
>> gestural commands.
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>> David Hill
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>> On Oct 24, 2015, at 1:46 30AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
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>>> Yes, it was mentioned on the Orca list.  I've been playing with it and
>>> created some demo mp3 files here:
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>>> http://classicradio.us/iso/
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>>> If that link doesn't work, try here instead:
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>>> http://classicradio.us/gnuspeech/
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>>> I plan to move the demos into their own directory and will add demos of
>>> the other voices.  I'll also use a different piece of sample text.  For a
>>> large body of text using the default male voice, listen to
>>> gnuspeech_gpl.mp3. It's the full GPL and should give you a good idea of
>>> the overall speech quality and inflection.  While I have certainly heard
>>> nicer sounding speech, two things I really like about it are its very
>>> small footprint and it doesn't mispronounce most English words, unlike
>>> most other synthesizers.
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>>> On 10/23/2015 6:07 AM, Mallard wrote:
>>>> Hello list,
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>>>> My son discovered this project the other day, and suggested I should point
>>>> you people to it.
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>>>> Has anyone heard of it, and is anyone thinking of helping with it?
>>>>
>>>> ADJ3798-KD
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>>>> Ciao,
>>>> Ollie
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