[DECtalk] a new way to sing

Ulysses Garcia green_gables_fan33 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 28 16:51:18 EST 2017


Hello,

It sounds to me as though they are using vocoder or something. That's 
what it sounded like to me.

-Ulysses


On 1/28/2017 1:38 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can get a much higher quality recording of ditties by sharing them 
> to Twitter, then using Youtube-DL to download the resulting Twitter 
> video URLs. That's the only way I know of to get a first generation 
> copy. As played through Amazon Echo, a lot of treble is lost.
>
> I, too, wonder what voices they're using to sing. The fact that it can 
> sing whatever you throw at it means they're not using a huge library 
> of samples or something.
>
> Jayson
>
> On 1/28/2017 3:08 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I received an Amazon Echo Dot for Christmas. I learned today that my Echo
>> now has a new feature called Diddy. If I speak a short message, it is
>> converted into a song sung by computerized voices with background music. The
>> voices and music are selected at random. I can change the song, if I need
>> to, until I find a voice/melody I like. I have created a few diddies using
>> the Diddy skill on my Amazon Echo Dot. I recorded them onto my computer
>> using a line-in cable. Does anyone want to hear my diddies? The voices are
>> not Dectalk. I don't know if they are proprietary, created by the Diddy
>> company which made the Echo Dot skill available.
>>
>> Blake
>>
>>
>>
>>
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