Steve,
Thank you for this fascinating bit of info. Is the Fred voice from Apple
derived from Klat-talk, as it sure does sound remarkably like one of the
Dec-talk voices. I guess I now know why the primary voice was called Dennis.
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On 10/19/2016 9:07 AM, Steve Clower via Talk wrote:
> To add to this, Dennis Klatt invented the Klat-Talk algorithm (which is
> available in the public domain) in the 1980's based on modeling waveforms of
> his own voice through a computer. DECTalk is derived from Klat-Talk, as is
> Macintalk on the Apple platform, though the two projects quickly branched off
> the original Klat-Talk code. This is why DECTalk and Macintalk sound so
> similar, yet different.
>
> Steve
>
>
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> You can, sort of, its name is Fred.
>
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> As do I.
> There are many newer ones which say they are human sounding, they are not,
> and in my opinion they are not as clear as easy to understand as the
> venerable DecTalk I wish I could get it on my iPhone.
>
> On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, CJ &AA MAY via Talk <
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>> I originally used Dectalk Express and despite the wide choice of much
>> more human voices, I still prefer to use Dectalk Access 32.
>>
>> Alison
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