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.
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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
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