Court production 2 / Exhibit B: the same DECtalk refrain from The Turtles' "Happy Together", except the vibrato has been removed and it's all unsure of pitch

#dectalk #singing #ohno

Court production 1 / Exhibit A: the refrain from The Turtles' "Happy Together", sung by DECtalk, as published on TheFlameOfHope

#dectalk #singing

for the few that care: DECtalk now builds on 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS (Debian, armhf). It previously only ran on 64-bit OSs.

dectalk/dectalk: Modern builds for the 90s/00s DECtalk text-to-speech application. — https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk

#DECtalk #tts #TextToSpeech #SpeechSynthesis #RaspberryPi #aeiou

somebody trained a neural network on a very skewed corpus of #DECtalk songs, and the results are quite something:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AwSZdNknIE

A terrible guide to #singing with #DECtalk — https://scruss.com/blog/2023/05/30/a-terrible-guide-to-singing-with-dectalk/

Will I ever tire of getting #DECtalk to sing about #JohnMadden ?

DECtalk in your browser is pretty cool: https://webspeak.terminal.ink/

The #DECtalk manual is delightfully precise about accents:

“The phonemes of English are not pronounced the same by every speaker. We all know people who pronounce some words differently from the way we do, yet we understand them. The differences may occur because we come from different parts of the country. Because of these variations, there is no such thing as a universal standard pronunciation of English. DECtalk attempts to mimic a midwestern (Northern Milwaukee) dialect.”

Oof, writing #DecTalk singing is *hard*. I have a 14-word jingle (yeah, let's call it that, for now) and even putting together the bare phonemes (without pitch or timing) has taken me hours

Thank you for the tip @scruss! Just found this little gem:
http://theflameofhope.co/song%20samples/BOHEMIAN%20RHAPSODY.mp3

#DECTalk #Queen #BohemianRhapsody

Yes, *songs* for DECTalk TTS are a thing. Perhaps the largest collection is here:

http://theflameofhope.co/SONGS%20FOR%20PC'.html

You likely want the "SPEAK WINDOW EN FORMAT" files.

#TTS #DECTalk

TIL there's a cross-platform version of DECTalk (the old classic text-to-speech system: think Stephen Hawking, or Moonbase Alpha) on github:

https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk

It's under a very dodgy licence so you're not going to see it on your favourite distro. But it can sing all of the old DECTalk songs, like "Rainbow Connection" ...

https://scruss.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/RainbowConnection-DECTalk.mp3

#TTS #DECTalk #Linux #Source #Accessibility

Yesterday evening I finished the 1.0 public release of my #Twitch TTS redeem bot https://dustythefuzzydragon.itch.io/chcl-chompy

It will animate (two frames of your choice) a TTS redeem, read by #dectalk!

A blog post on the Emacspeak blog: AsTeR: Spoken Math On The Emacspeak Audio Desktop (with demos!):

https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2022/12/aster-spoken-math-on-emacspeak-audio_21.html

#a11y #accessibility #emacspeak #emacs #math #foss #dectalk

Just started learning how to make #DecTalk sing. Time to make some covers!

The Internet Archive has a live emulated version of the DECtalk DTC-01 speech synthesizer online, and a copy of the manual to go with it.

https://archive.org/details/dectalk

The synthesized voice dates from 1984.

cc @internetarchive

[ #dectalk #MAME ]