[DECtalk] new development

[Tom Kopec]

I was very deeply involved in the DECTalk NWS project (at least while 
DEC was in existence), and I don't recall a special version for them. 
But it has been a long time.
The synthesizer itself was an off-the-shelf DECTalk-PC II, though that 
might have changed after I left DEC/Compaq.

The system it was part of (CRS, done by Commpower) had the ability to 
set voice parameters, and I'd bet that's where both the baseline and 
site-to-site voice variations came from.

...tom

On 9/28/2022 1:35 AM, dectalk-request at bluegrasspals.com wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:28:58 -0400
> From: jake mcmahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com>
> To: DECtalk <Dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Subject: [DECtalk] new development
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> Hello list:
>
> Yesterday I was hit by a major major event.? Ever since I was a kid, I
> had always been so fascinated by the dectalk they used for the NWS.
>
> I'm just rocking along in my rocker just watching judge ross when one of
> my friends who may also be on this list, called me up along with my
> girlfriend as he was catching up with her.? He told me that Jake Gross
> had reached out to someone who gave him the exact file used in that
> version of dectalk.? Jake, if this is true, I'd like to know the
> backstory on this.? I know you'd already gotten most of the dectalk
> sourcecode, but how in the world did this NWS thing take place.
>
> Jake M.
>