[DECtalk] Dectalk first generation

[Tony Morales]

Yes. The recordings are from the Klatt collection.

Thanks,

Tony



> On Oct 31, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net> wrote:
> 
> Tony,
> Are the MITalk/KlatTalk recordings you shared from the speech synthesis
> collection created by Dennis Klat? They sound familiar to my ears.
> When I  shared the first generation dectalk.mp3 audio, I was not aware  that
> the first generation file was a prank.
> Blake
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Tony
> Morales
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 7:47 PM
> To: DECtalk
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Dectalk first generation
> 
> The early DECtalk did not sound that terrible. The MIT MITalk system from
> 1979 is recognizable in this recording as the DECtalk ancestor it is:
> 
> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/rhythmsp/ASA/AUfiles/30.AU
> 
> The Klattalk system from 1983 was the immediate predecessor of DECtalk and
> is indistinguishable from the early DECtalk as can be heard in this
> recording:
> 
> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/rhythmsp/ASA/AUfiles/33.AU
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
>> On Oct 31, 2017, at 4:09 PM, Jake Gross <datajake at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> About that recording. I emailed Patrick Perdue several months ago
>> about that because that recording was part of a 7z archive of
>> productions he has. The first generation DECtalk  was actually a
>> prank. He used a DECtalk express, compressed the recording with lpc,
>> and used manual stressing and incorrect phonemes
>> Speaking of old versions of DECtalk, I was able to get DECtalk 1.8 and
>> DECtalk 2.0 running in the mame emulator.
>> I uploaded an archive that contains mame and the DECtalk rom.
>> http://grossgang.com/utilities/mame0184b_64bit.7z
>> To start the emulator, open a command prompt and open the directory
>> where mame was extracted.
>> Type mame64 dectalk and press enter to start DECtalk 2.0. To start the
>> emulator with DECtalk 1.8, type mame64 dectalk -bios 1.
>> You will have to press enter twice after you execute the command. If
>> all goes well, you should here the DECtalk startup message. To have
>> DECtalk speak your own text, just type your text and press enter
>> twice.
>> 
>> On 10/31/17, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> On Jake Gross's AnyAudio page, I found a recording of the Dectalk first
>>> generation. I am sharing the MP3 for anyone who has not heard the
> recording
>>> before. As the attached recording says, Dectalk was still in development
> in
>>> 1979. Compared to later versions of Dectalk, the first generation Dectalk
>>> definitely sounds different.
>>> 
>>> Blake
>>> 
>>> 
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