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Thanks, that was fun to listen to.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage">
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<div>On Sep 6, 2025, at 12:53 AM, Aksel Christoffersen <aksel@dectalk.nu> wrote:</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">I was recently contacted by @rommix0, who has a working DECtalk DTC03 module, which was released in 1985. He offered to record some audio samples of the speech, and I’ve now received two samples, which I’ve added to the DECtalk Archive.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">I personally think this is a really interesting listen, since, from what I know, no audio of the DTC03 has existed on the internet before now.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">I also think the voice quality apparent from these recordings is a really interesting study, since it actually doesn’t sound that different from the 90s hardware and software DECtalk we all know. The pronounciations of some words are
a bit different, but overall the voices are more or less the same. This is especially interesting when comparing this to
<a href="https://dectalk.nu/Speech%20Synthesis%20Demonstrations/DECtalk/Aksel%20Christoffersen/DECtalk%201.8.wav">
DECtalk 1.8 from 1983</a> or <a href="https://dectalk.nu/Speech%20Synthesis%20Demonstrations/DECtalk/Aksel%20Christoffersen/DECtalk%202.0.wav">
DECtalk 2.0 from 1984</a>, which both sound quite different than the DTC03. This really shows how much work went into improving the voices in just a year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://dectalk.nu/Speech%20Synthesis%20Demonstrations/DECtalk/Digital%20Equipment%20Corporation/dtc03%20firmware.wav">Here is the first sample, of the DTC03 talking about it’s firmware.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://dectalk.nu/Speech%20Synthesis%20Demonstrations/DECtalk/Aksel%20Christoffersen/DECtalk%203.0.wav">And here is a sample of the DTC03 reading my own test text demonstrating the voices and the singing, which is also used
to demonstrate all the other DECtalk versions in the archive.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Enjoy!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Kind regards:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Aksel<o:p></o:p></div>
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