The Talk2 List I don't know how you do it!

2006-08-16 Thread RAYMOND GAY
Hi, Andre, cool track, I don't know how you manage to do it, but you always find a way to amaze me. I suppose, that goes for a lot of people though. I think one of my favorites is "A Piece for Katy (Remix)" and "Strange and weird (instrumental)" Well, have a good time,Ray. smime.p7s Descri

Re: The Talk2 List Domain names without thought?

2006-08-16 Thread Maria L
Don't worry Rachel, I got all the way to number 3 before I finally figured out how to turn my brain sideways. lol Highly highly amusing, I must say. Thanks everyone, for keeping me from completely sailing off into who knows where and leaving everyone and thing i care about screaming for me to co

Re: The Talk2 List Domain names without thought?

2006-08-16 Thread Rachel D Keyte
woh OK thanks Patrick! as I say, I am really a slow exister! :) At 10:47 AM 17/08/2006, you wrote: On 8/16/2006, 8:10:17 PM EST, Rachel wrote: > OK i get some of these > but others just look normal to me. I'm slow! OK, I'm bored. Here, let's break it apart and take all the fun out of it, s

Re: The Talk2 List Domain names without thought?

2006-08-16 Thread Patrick Perdue
On 8/16/2006, 8:10:17 PM EST, Rachel wrote: > OK i get some of these > but others just look normal to me. I'm slow! OK, I'm bored. Here, let's break it apart and take all the fun out of it, shall we? 1. Who Represents, as if that one isn't obvious enough: 2. Expert Sex Change 3. PenisLand 4.

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread derek Lane
Well, just like basically anything else; It's something to do. - Original Message - From: "Stephen Clower" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "talk2" Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 7:53 PM Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices! It's not posted anywhere yet,

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread Rachel D Keyte
Vanja, you're weird! Ditto! I wouldn't mind certain people doing that but as I say, this one was only out of curiosity of what the whole thing sounds like as a package. hmmm Vanja, are you gunna do one? hahaha! (kidding of course :) At 10:32 AM 17/08/2006, you wrote: Well you never know steve

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread Stephen Clower
Touche, Vanja, touche. At 07:32 PM 8/16/2006, you wrote: Well you never know steve, maybe Rachel finds your voice sexy, lol. I sure wouldn't mind certain people trying doing their own version, although I guess when synthetic thay don't exactly sound as sexy, still...when there's nothing else b

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread Vanja Sudar
Well you never know steve, maybe Rachel finds your voice sexy, lol. I sure wouldn't mind certain people trying doing their own version, although I guess when synthetic thay don't exactly sound as sexy, still...when there's nothing else better available... Vanja http://www.sudar.co.uk MSN messen

Re: The Talk2 List Domain names without thought?

2006-08-16 Thread Rachel D Keyte
OK i get some of these but others just look normal to me. I'm slow! At 09:50 AM 17/08/2006, you wrote: Domain Names Without Thought? All of these are legitimate companies, dealing in regular products and services. But they didn't quite 'Do the math' when it came time to choose their domain name

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread Rachel D Keyte
Lol just because I'm curious in how it all sounds put together since I probably won't be able to do it myself. I use to be OK at american accents but just can't do them any more! Lol Cheers! At 09:53 AM 17/08/2006, you wrote: It's not posted anywhere yet, mainly because it's incomplete. If I g

Re: The Talk2 List Domain names without thought?

2006-08-16 Thread Patrick Perdue
Yes, hi .How are you? I would just like to say the following as it relates to this post: Log! In fact, loggy log! Thank you for your continued existence: Also, thank you for allowing me to waste some space in your inbox with a log. On 8/16/2006, 7:50:24 PM EST, Vanja wrote: > Domain Names Withou

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread Stephen Clower
It's not posted anywhere yet, mainly because it's incomplete. If I get some time to finish it, I will. Though why someone would desire a synthetic copy of my voice is beyond me. Steve At 06:48 PM 8/16/2006, you wrote: ah yes I guess it could be! ah dear; an american Andre? an American Rachel

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread Rachel D Keyte
ah yes I guess it could be! ah dear; an american Andre? an American Rachel? ah well; there goes that idea I suppose! Am currently searching for your voices Steve. If anyone else has theirs uploaded somewhere, let me know! Cheers! :) At 11:44 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: It could be your accent;

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread Stephen Clower
It could be your accent; the speech recognition engine only works with American English for now. I know Andre had to really accentuate his phonemes to get the software to accept them. By the way, if anyone cares, the archive where I play with my own model talker voice is from May 6, 2006. GO gr

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread Rachel D Keyte
oh OK cool thanks Derek. i just took a guess and figured why bother with the calebrate thing since it seemed we couldn't see it anyway. I didn't realize it worked from that originally too, thanks heaps! :) At 10:21 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Hit calibrate and then say things. It uses what to s

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread derek Lane
Hit calibrate and then say things. It uses what to say to determine the natural pitch and range of your voice when speaking normally. For example, if beck screamed "beck in a hat," in a really high voice and then tried to do the actual prompts in her standard voice, then it wouldn't work because

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread Rachel D Keyte
Hey steve, Patrick, anyone else (who's done this), I'm having problems unfortunately. I can't get past the first one "do you understand what I'm saying?" It's recording perfectly (as I hear it when I go into the file within the directory itself), but every time I try and record that sentence

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread derek Lane
It's fun and a bit odd. Last Saturdays Louis Bin ended up having both mine and Patrick's mottle talker voice on it. Steve had loads of fun with it as well back in may, but I forgot the date. Ah well. BTW, it's fun compiling the voice after about 200 phrases or so, it sounds all MSTTS about its

Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!

2006-08-16 Thread Stephen Clower
The trick is that it's more tedious than anything else. Getting through roughly half of the phoneme recording takes about two hours, so you might want to grab some coffee to stay awake while recording yourself. Skype blows goat testacles, everybody. At 10:38 PM 8/15/2006, you wrote: wow, is