[DECtalk], Re: another speech synth

  • From: nick G <nick6489@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dectalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:14:29 -0400

As it's name implies, macintalk only works on a Macintosh.  It is included
in Mac OS.
Thanks,
Nick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Frank Horspool" <dh012e2025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <dectalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:12 PM
Subject: [DECtalk], Re: another speech synth


> Where can I get that speech synthesizer from?
> E-mail me!
> dh012e2025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> or visit my web site!
> http://www.horspool.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: nick G
> To: dectalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 2:25 PM
> Subject: [DECtalk], Re: another speech synth
>
>
> That uses the Plaintalk English Text-to-speech family of synths.
Plaintalk
> is the core, with Macintalk 2, 3, and pro as the drivers.  Macintalk 3
> actually was a dectalk synth altered for themac.
> Thanks,
> Nick
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matthew Frank Horspool" <dh012e2025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <dectalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 6:30 AM
> Subject: [DECtalk], Re: another speech synth
>
>
> > Yep, they are the ones I mean. I found it quite amusing to hear it sing
a
> Partridge In A Pare tree in the middle of June...
> > E-mail me!
> > dh012e2025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > or visit my web site!
> > http://www.horspool.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
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> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Jayson Smith
> > To: dectalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 9:38 AM
> > Subject: [DECtalk], Re: another speech synth
> >
> >
> > The synth you are referring to is not actually a speech synthesizer,
> > although it might could be used for that.  It is a program for the
> Macintosh
> > computer family called Vocal Writer.  I talked once with the guy who
made
> > several of those files you mentioned and from his description, even if
we
> > could use Vocalwriter on the PC family of computers, it probably
wouldn't
> be
> > easy if even possible for a blind person to use it.  Some of his
> arangements
> > are in the barbershop style, E.G. "Let Me Call you Sweetheart", "Heart
of
> my
> > Heart", "Keep The Whole World Singing", etc.  I assume these are the
types
> > of files you're talking about?
> > Also, you said you were thinking of, or planning on, continuing the Red
> > Dwarf series?  Any idea when the next episode is coming out?
> > Jayson.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Matthew Frank Horspool" <dh012e2025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <dectalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 4:15 AM
> > Subject: [DECtalk], another speech synth
> >
> >
> > > hi all
> > > I've been going through the DECtalk archive and found some wonderful
> stuff
> > from people. Something interesting, though:
> > > Quite a lot of the DECtalk Archive was not DECtalk, and some of it, in
> > fact, a lot of it was a speech synth i had never heard before.
> > > It sang such things as the US National Anthem, Allright.MP3,
agfeug.MP3,
> > tigertiger.ogg etc.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what this synth is called?
> > > E-mail me!
> > > dh012e2025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > or visit my web site!
> > > http://www.horspool.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
> > >
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