[DECtalk] User dictionary

[Guillem León]

Just to clarify, Josh, I do not recall being involved with or sending you any Klatt6 variants, I think you might be thinking of the wrong person here.

> On 24 Feb 2023, at 19:40, <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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