[DECtalk] User dictionary

[joshknnd1982 at gmail.com]

Yes espeak is very good. I made it even better with the extra klatt6
variants I got from guillem. And if I set the inflection to 30 and use
espeak antonio2, a new klatt6 variant, or espeak glenn, another new klatt6
variant or espeak betty, a klatt6 female variant, espeak sounds great and I
can use it for days and days at a time. And if you remove most of the
languages and just keep you're your favorite languages and variants espeak
is small enough to fit on an old floppy disk, but then so is decTalk. And
now we're at the point that with good enough hardware or by using an online
service we can clone people's voices with just a few seconds of a recording
of them speaking, and then make them say whatever we want by using google
colab or eleven labs websites. It's a long way from votrax back in the early
1980s or even echo speech, echo from street electronics and apple II-e. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> On Behalf Of Kyle via
Dectalk
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2023 12:50
To: DECtalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Cc: Kyle <kyle at free2.ml>
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] User dictionary

The first time I tried to join a Discord server, it told me that the invite
I had was invalid, even though it was given to me by the person running the
server. Then they disabled my account due to some sort of spam that I never
sent, as I had only even used the website twice unsuccessfully. I got my
account reenabled on appeal, but haven't tried using it since then. I guess
now is as good a time as any to try again, as I really would like to get
this user dictionary thing sorted out. I would love to be able to work with
the speech synthesizer directly rather than change pronunciations in my
screen reader.


On a side note, I got an email from a client yesterday asking about cloning
a git repository. I answered that question, and then find that what my
client was cloning was

https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk

So we have yet another user of this wonderfully old and wonderfully lovely
DECTalk software that seems to be aging like a fine wine. Even probably 30
or more years ago when I heard this speech for the first time, I thought it
sounded really good for its time, and even now it sounds better than most of
the stuff we have now, with the possible exception of Espeak, which if
nothing else is more clear because of the higher sample rate. I'm actually
having a lot of fun seeing other people using and having fun with these
voices.

~Kyle

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