[DECtalk] eloquence and Chinese

[Miguel Villagomez]

Hi. Yes, I know what you're talking about. The Japanese and Korean versions
of Eloquence have a similar problem. I honestly don't know why that is. I
also don't know why the Computer Room version of SAPI5 Eloquence has those
languages included, while the AT-Guys and CF versions do not, even though
oddly enough the AT-Guys product description says it has those languages.
It's all very confusing for anyone who wants to buy this synth.
On Sep 25, 2015 11:41 AM, "Carlos Fernandez via Dectalk" <
dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:

> As your resident Chinese speaker, I figured I'd inform you about a strange
> problem with the Chinese eloquence sapi5 from code factory. I recently
> tried the 7-day trial from code factory, and I found that only the computer
> room version contains the Asian languages--the version you can get directly
> from code factory does not have them. Anyway, the Mandarin Chinese version
> adds a short Close front unrounded vowel, basically what would be
> considered a long E in English or an I in most other languages. It is not
> short enough to form a consonant Y, but it sort of sounds like that. So, if
> you try to pass the character ai through the synth, you get what sounds
> basically like yai out instead. This happens to every single character, and
> makes using this as a Chinese synthesizer exceedingly irritating. I wasn't
> going to buy it anyway, as I don't care that much about eloquence, but this
> makes me even less likely to do so.
>
> Carlos
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