[DECtalk] User dictionary

[joshknnd1982 at gmail.com]

It was probably a different person. Someone on the blind android users list
posted many new espeak klatt6 variants that are really good!! 


-----Original Message-----
From: Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> On Behalf Of Guillem León
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2023 14:54
To: DECtalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] User dictionary

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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