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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I wonder if this is why the old Braille n Speak always sounded monotone?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Was it because they didn’t take time to make the pitch be more expressive in sentences?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The only shift in pitch I tended to notice was at periods and question marks but that was it.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Brandon</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:Text_to_Speech@gmx.com">Don</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, August 17, 2022 4:20 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [DECtalk] DECTalk 4.2 Alpha (fwd)</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 8/16/2022 5:26 PM, Josh Kennedy wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> it would be great for nostalgia. Sake to have a double talk emulator someday</p><p class=MsoNormal>> just something simple that you could paste text into and have it read it</p><p class=MsoNormal>> back and change the play around with the different speech parameters of it.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The DoubleTalk had a TTS built-in. So, unlike the Votrax devices,</p><p class=MsoNormal>you could push *text* at it and expect to hear speech. By contrast,</p><p class=MsoNormal>the Votrax devices were analagous to operating DECtalk in "phoneme</p><p class=MsoNormal>mode"; you pushed phonemes at the device and it "made sounds".</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[I've not bothered to sort out the details of the TTS algorithm</p><p class=MsoNormal>embodied in the device as it's of a pretty low quality -- easy to</p><p class=MsoNormal>"confuse".]</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Because there is information stored in the transitions between sounds,</p><p class=MsoNormal>this meant you had to think hard about the phoneme sequence and *how*</p><p class=MsoNormal>each was going to be articulated, stressed, etc. Otherwise, it speaks</p><p class=MsoNormal>in a dreadful monotone.</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dectalk mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>