Hi Paul, I'm interested in what you have said, about the text assist soundblaster. What characters, and symbols do you need to make it sing? R Q J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Erkens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:42 AM Subject: singing dectalk and soundblaster
Hi, Somewhere in 1996 I used to have windows 95 and a soundblaster 16 soundcard, running a piece of software called text-assist. Text-assist had a text reader, sort of a talking notepad, and you could make it sing using pure text together with a few special symbols to indicate frequency and note durations. That text-assist soundblaster thing sounded almost exactly like the dectalk 4.3, which appears to be a completely different bit of software. On the web, there are numerous songs to download, made by dectalk enthousiasts, that make the dectalk sing wonderful songs. Not only one-liners, but complete songs with lyrics. And even better: not only monophone songs, but multiple voices sounding at once, creating very nice close harmony compositions. Even more: some guys have created dectalk vocals along with background music. What can be achieved with either text-assist or dectalk is impressing. Now I have two questions. First: if I happen to find the floppy containing text assist again, will that software then be able to run on windows xp with a totally different soundcard? I still have one from Creative, but this is the soundplaster extigy and not the sb16 anymore. Any experience with text-assist on a newer operating system than windows 95 for which it was originally made? Second: the dectalk 4.3 software doesn't seem to be available anymore. I now know that it is produced by "digital Equipment Corporation", which is, y the way, why the letters D E C are in the word dectalk, but what they currently sell is a much more human-like sounding software synthesizer that cannot sing, which is not what I'm hoping to find because I want to create my own synthetic dectalk songs. Does anyone know how I can obtain a copy of the dectalk software somewhere? Kind regards from Holland, Paul. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:07 PM Subject: Nero & MP3 CD > Hi, > > I notice that under the burn options for Music CD, there is an option hat > says MP3 CD. I've burned data CDs with MP3 files on them, and I've made > regular audio, CDDA format, CDs using MP3 files. So, , exactly what does > this MP3 option under the Music CD do? > > ~Ann > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.2 - Release Date: 1/28/05 > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
