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Oh no. The Cybiko can communicate with the DECtalk device, which now also speaks Meshtastic. What have I done.

#Cybiko #Meshtastic #DECTalk

This afternoon I partook of a webinar produced by #NFB on the subject of the product 1Password. I’ve been curious about 1Password for a while, and I thought this would be a good idea to get an introduction to it. It was well-done, but I wound up having to bail early. It had nothing to do with the value of the webinar, I learned a lot. Unfortunately, the presenter was using #DecTalk on the computer on which they were demonstrating it. DecTalk just gives me a headache. There are so many far better voices available now, why would anyone stick to what was the standard at the turn of the millennium? But I digress. I’m very interested in 1Password now, but the house is very much divided. Sarah does not trust anything like this; just this week she had to delete all of her passwords from Google. I still might invest in 1Password, we shall see.

I adapted the #I2S Pinout for the #DECtalk Mini from the #MAX98357A Board to my NanoPi Nanohat #PCM5102A
Sounds much louder as the PWM-Version :)
The Board is a #Waveshare RP2040 Zero

I adapted the #I2S Pinout for the #DECtalk Mini from the #MAX98357A Board to my NanoPi Nanohat #PCM5102A
Sounds much louder as the PWM-Version :)
The Board is a #Waveshare RP2040 Zero

I adapted the #I2S Pinout for the #DECtalk Mini from the #MAX98357A Board to my NanoPi Nanohat #PCM5102A
Sounds much louder as the PWM-Version :)
The Board is a #Waveshare RP2040 Zero

I adapted the #I2S Pinout for the #DECtalk Mini from the #MAX98357A Board to my NanoPi Nanohat #PCM5102A
Sounds much louder as the PWM-Version :)
The Board is a #Waveshare RP2040 Zero

I adapted the #I2S Pinout for the #DECtalk Mini from the #MAX98357A Board to my NanoPi Nanohat #PCM5102A
Sounds much louder as the PWM-Version :)
The Board is a #Waveshare RP2040 Zero

I think Bohemian Rhapsody with the main 4 Microsoft Agent characters (Merlin, Genie, Peedy, and Robby) would be cool if it doesn't exist yet. I'd do it but I don't have enough knowledge of making Agents sing. This idea was inspired by this video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=30DUDh197bk

#MicrosoftAgent #DECTalk #MoonbaseAlpha #BohemianRhapsody

From the #DECtalk Mini github repository I commpiled with the #Pico-SDK today the RPi #RP2040 Pico version and changed it
from USB serial 115.200 Baud
to GPIO0/1-TTL-Serial 9600Baud.
Sounds fine on the left 3.5mm Audio channel
(GPIO28/Pin 24) of a
#Olimex RP2040-Pico-PC Board :)

https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini
https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini

Did you know that you can build and use DECTalk on Linux?

https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk

#DECTalk #Linux

Control your #DECtalk-Mini #TTS
on #Android via #Network ( HTTP or UDP) with the Home24 MediaPlayer App v1.28:

#DECtalk-Mini as #TTS
for #Android (also v12+):
https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini/releases/tag/v2.0.3

Hello #blind folks! A very long time ago, I had a zip archive containing a whole bunch of funny stuff that talented people had made with that good old #Dectalk TTS. There were covers, jokes... I lost it during a crash and I'd really like to find it again. If you had it, that would be cool! Thanks

I used this to help with the conversion:
brianbaillargeon1/MIDI2DECTalk — https://github.com/brianbaillargeon1/MIDI2DECTalk

It was hard to install and didn't quite work right, but it got so much closer than anything else I've tried

#DECtalk #midi

which, if you don't want to paste it into
https://webspeak.terminal.ink/
sounds like ...

#DECtalk #DuggaDoo #DrWho

Enough of Dugga Doo to be annoying:

[:NU][d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'uw<244,27>d<90>'ah<76,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,26>g<90>ax<77,26>d<90>'ah<76,32>g<90>ax<77,32>d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'uw<244,27>d<90>'ah<76,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,29>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'ah<77,32>g<90>ax<77,26>d<90>'uw<488,27>]

#DECtalk #DuggaDoo

That time I made a little DECtalk hardware box with now-defunct hardware
[tɒk bɒks] — a tiny hardware speech synthesizer/TTS — https://scruss.com/blog/2016/02/27/t%C9%92k-b%C9%92ks-a-tiny-hardware-speech-synthesizertts/

#speech #tts #DECtalk

Wow, an #archive for #DECtalk, the cutting-edge speech synthesizer from *drumroll* 1984! 📼 Because who doesn't need a comprehensive guide to a dusty relic only hipsters and historians care about? 😂 Remember, nothing says "I live in the past" like diving into legality issues of forgotten tech. 📚👴
https://dectalk.nu/ #SpeechSynthesizer #TechHistory #Nostalgia #HipsterCulture #HackerNews #ngated

DECtalk Archive

https://dectalk.nu/

#HackerNews #DECtalk #Archive #technology #nostalgia #speechsynthesis #digitalheritage

#DECtalk for #Android ;)
as a .APK v1.0.5 from the 2nd Jan 2025
https://github.com/dectalk/microdectalk

This kind of worked, kind of didn't. I made a little #DECtalk sound pendulum

What it is is eight tracks of DECtalk singing "ping!". The first track, panned hard left in stereo, plays at the lowest pitch and says "ping" every 768 ms. The next track, mostly panned left, plays at the next scale note up every 720 ms, The next, just left of centre, at the third note of the scale, every 672 ms ... and so on.

It's supposed to drop in and out of phase. It does, kinda, but needs work

aside from @vik 's inspired sed 's/[aeiou]/&lf&/g' nonsense generator, I think this one's much better than the last:

sed 's/[aeiou][aeiou]*/&rkle/gi'

'To be, or not to be' => 'Torkle berkle, orkler norklet torkle berkle'

In the spirit of #aeiou , this sounds “amazing” when fed through #DECtalk ...

Finally fixed Visual Studio 6 builds of #dectalk so they should be being pumped out on GitHub every commit.

https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk/actions/workflows/build.yml

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/

Vintage Speech Synthesizer Croons the Oldies - If you listened to the National Weather Service Weather Radio in the US about 25 years ago, you’ll... more: https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/vintage-speech-synthesizer-croons-the-oldies/ #speechsynthesis #retrocomputing #trs-80model100 #retrocomputer #musicalhacks #dectalk #phoneme #rs-232 #serial

From the #DECtalk Mini github repository I commpiled with the #Pico-SDK today the RPi #RP2040 Pico version and changed it
from USB serial 115.200 Baud
to GPIO0/1-TTL-Serial 9600Baud.
Sounds fine on the left 3.5mm Audio channel
(GPIO28/Pin 24) of a
#Olimex RP2040-Pico-PC Board :)

https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini
https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini

From the #DECtalk Mini github repository I commpiled with the #Pico-SDK today the RPi #RP2040 Pico version and changed it
from USB serial 115.200 Baud
to GPIO0/1-TTL-Serial 9600Baud.
Sounds fine on the left 3.5mm Audio channel
(GPIO28/Pin 24) of a
#Olimex RP2040-Pico-PC Board :)

https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini
https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini

From the #DECtalk Mini github repository I commpiled with the #Pico-SDK today the RPi #RP2040 Pico version and changed it
from USB serial 115.200 Baud
to GPIO0/1-TTL-Serial 9600Baud.
Sounds fine on the left 3.5mm Audio channel
(GPIO28/Pin 24) of a
#Olimex RP2040-Pico-PC Board :)

https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini
https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini

From the #DECtalk Mini github repository I commpiled with the #Pico-SDK today the RPi #RP2040 Pico version and changed it
from USB serial 115.200 Baud
to GPIO0/1-TTL-Serial 9600Baud.
Sounds fine on the left 3.5mm Audio channel
(GPIO28/Pin 24) of a
#Olimex RP2040-Pico-PC Board :)

https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini
https://github.com/dectalk/DECtalkMini

I think Bohemian Rhapsody with the main 4 Microsoft Agent characters (Merlin, Genie, Peedy, and Robby) would be cool if it doesn't exist yet. I'd do it but I don't have enough knowledge of making Agents sing. This idea was inspired by this video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=30DUDh197bk

#MicrosoftAgent #DECTalk #MoonbaseAlpha #BohemianRhapsody

I think Bohemian Rhapsody with the main 4 Microsoft Agent characters (Merlin, Genie, Peedy, and Robby) would be cool if it doesn't exist yet. I'd do it but I don't have enough knowledge of making Agents sing. This idea was inspired by this video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=30DUDh197bk

#MicrosoftAgent #DECTalk #MoonbaseAlpha #BohemianRhapsody

I think Bohemian Rhapsody with the main 4 Microsoft Agent characters (Merlin, Genie, Peedy, and Robby) would be cool if it doesn't exist yet. I'd do it but I don't have enough knowledge of making Agents sing. This idea was inspired by this video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=30DUDh197bk

#MicrosoftAgent #DECTalk #MoonbaseAlpha #BohemianRhapsody

Coming up on my YouTube channel on Monday, May 15th, 2023 at 5 PM BST, on its 23rd anniversary, an ACB Radio Main Menu segment on singing speech synthesizers, featuring some DECTalk song renditions and funny skits, hosted by @JonathanMosen and starring @BorrisInABox. See the premier when it goes live here https://youtu.be/UZJS6bmxOJk #DECTalk #TextToSpeech #TTS #2000s #RetroTech #nostalgia #ACB #ACBRadio #mainmenu

which, if you don't want to paste it into
https://webspeak.terminal.ink/
sounds like ...

#DECtalk #DuggaDoo #DrWho

which, if you don't want to paste it into
https://webspeak.terminal.ink/
sounds like ...

#DECtalk #DuggaDoo #DrWho

which, if you don't want to paste it into
https://webspeak.terminal.ink/
sounds like ...

#DECtalk #DuggaDoo #DrWho

which, if you don't want to paste it into
https://webspeak.terminal.ink/
sounds like ...

#DECtalk #DuggaDoo #DrWho

Enough of Dugga Doo to be annoying:

[:NU][d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'uw<244,27>d<90>'ah<76,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,26>g<90>ax<77,26>d<90>'ah<76,32>g<90>ax<77,32>d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'uw<244,27>d<90>'ah<76,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,29>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'ah<77,32>g<90>ax<77,26>d<90>'uw<488,27>]

#DECtalk #DuggaDoo

Enough of Dugga Doo to be annoying:

[:NU][d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'uw<244,27>d<90>'ah<76,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,26>g<90>ax<77,26>d<90>'ah<76,32>g<90>ax<77,32>d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'uw<244,27>d<90>'ah<76,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,29>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'ah<77,32>g<90>ax<77,26>d<90>'uw<488,27>]

#DECtalk #DuggaDoo

Enough of Dugga Doo to be annoying:

[:NU][d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'uw<244,27>d<90>'ah<76,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,26>g<90>ax<77,26>d<90>'ah<76,32>g<90>ax<77,32>d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'uw<244,27>d<90>'ah<76,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,29>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'ah<77,32>g<90>ax<77,26>d<90>'uw<488,27>]

#DECtalk #DuggaDoo

Enough of Dugga Doo to be annoying:

[:NU][d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'uw<244,27>d<90>'ah<76,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,26>g<90>ax<77,26>d<90>'ah<76,32>g<90>ax<77,32>d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'uw<244,27>d<90>'ah<76,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,31>g<90>ax<77,31>d<90>'uw<243,27>d<90>'ah<77,29>g<90>ax<76,31>d<90>'ah<77,32>g<90>ax<77,26>d<90>'uw<488,27>]

#DECtalk #DuggaDoo