[DECtalk] eloquence and Chinese

[Mohamed]

Woops, I believe I was thinking of the add on.

On 09/26/15 06:25 AM, Mohamed wrote:
> Hmm? It seems that the Chinese eloquence in the version on Jake's site 
> is almost completely broken. If you change it to Chinese, it's still 
> speaking in English, but it seems to be trying to tailor it's 
> intonation for Chinese. Set its inflection to 0, you'll get a really 
> horrible singing effect.
>
> On 09/26/15 03:26 AM, Piotr Machacz via Dectalk wrote:
>> This is pure speculation, but all of those fouls the languages say at 
>> the beginning almost sound like someone saying “trial”. If you get 
>> the eloquence speak window from Jake’s site, that version doesn’t 
>> have this problem. Those eastern eloquence languages are really rare, 
>> so maybe Nuance, and all the companies before them were charging 
>> people extra to get access to them, and code factory accidentally 
>> included trial copies of those languages.
>>> On 26 Sep 2015, at 05:05, brandon T via Dectalk 
>>> <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The At Guys version used to include the Japanese, Chinese and Korean 
>>> voices.
>>>
>>> However, I contacted them about a previous version being on the site,
>>> and after getting in touch with Code Factory, they must have given AT
>>> Guys the latest one recently.
>>>
>>> As for why Computer Room Services still has those 3 additional
>>> languages, the file just hasn't been updated.
>>>
>>> As for why Code Factory removed them, I recommend sending an email to
>>> Code Factory at:
>>> support at codefactory.es
>>> as they will probably be able to provide a better explanation of this.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you have any further questions.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Brandon
>>>
>>> On 9/25/15, Miguel Villagomez via Dectalk 
>>> <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>> 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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