DECtalk provides a realistic simulation of human voice John Madden

@joeconti2396

5 жыл бұрын

AEIOU

@Graahd

5 жыл бұрын

Football

@tyttuut

5 жыл бұрын

Ebrbrbrbrbrbrbr

@Azelf89

5 жыл бұрын

Here comes another Chinese Earthquake

@hana-ng4ql

5 жыл бұрын

aeiou

any moonbase alpha player would feel right at home using this thing, or the other way around

@KyoshoLP

5 жыл бұрын

John Madden?

@user-pc5sc7zi9j

4 жыл бұрын

LGR: "Dectalk singing, hah hah. Thats a whoooole other realm..." moonbase alpha player: "My realm that is"

@SyphistPrime

4 жыл бұрын

That game taught me so much about DECTalk commands. In fact that why I want some of the vintage hardware.

@SvendleBerries

4 жыл бұрын

[naenaenaenaenaenaenaenaebaettmaenn]

@dirbyh

4 жыл бұрын

john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden aeioiaoaeiaeoaieoiae john madden ?

>singing DECtalk See Hatsune Miku, this is your grandpa

@petrosrz8990

3 жыл бұрын

I laughed harder than what I should have

@ranjanbiswas3233

3 жыл бұрын

*Sony Project Diva

@goldenpun5592

3 жыл бұрын

Makes me think of that nasa game. JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN

@ZX3000GT1

3 жыл бұрын

Someone should make a fanart with miku meeting an anthropomorphic dectalk

@themagicboy6548

3 жыл бұрын

no, the ibm 7904 is her grandpa

Hi guys welcome to my DECtalk *J O H N M A D D E N* Thank you

@Jordan-nm3qu

5 жыл бұрын

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh John madden

@nosrah9660

4 жыл бұрын

aeiou

@InfinityR319

3 жыл бұрын

Holla holla get $ Hahaha

I wasn't sure until I heard the singing, but this is definitely the TTS in moonbase alpha

@StoutShako

5 жыл бұрын

JOHN MADDEN. JOHN MADDEN. JOHN MADDEN. FOOTBALL.

@Dozerduncan

5 жыл бұрын

*Big American TTS*

@NerdzillaCookie

5 жыл бұрын

Unreal Engine 3 simulates DECTalk voice synthesis for text to speech. It also works the same in Viscera Cleanup Detail, since it's the same engine.

@MrHack4never

5 жыл бұрын

AEIOU

@koltinn

5 жыл бұрын

Mama mia papa pia Baby got the Diareaaaaaaaaaaa

Make it say "Mattel Electronics presents: B17 Bomber" BEEEEEEE SEAVUNTEEEN BAAAAUUUUWWWWMEERRRRR

@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R

5 жыл бұрын

I think you mean BEEEEEEE SEAVUNTEEEN BAAAAUUUUWWWWMEERRRRR

@Chaos89P

5 жыл бұрын

I tried, but I was having weird issues.

@Tenzima

5 жыл бұрын

"Alright, fuck the game, let's try Bomb Squad"

@mjverostek1278

5 жыл бұрын

AAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSS

@eduardoavila646

5 жыл бұрын

That nintendo nerd reference!

As an accessibility professional, this history of screen readers and AAC was fascinating! You can still use that voice on the latest version of JAWS today. Thank you so much for making this!

@LGR

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@kevinwetsch5209

3 жыл бұрын

I am mostly blind, and remember using very early versions of Jaws that have that voice.

@PunishedFelix

2 жыл бұрын

Big same I was like WOAH THATS OLD JAWS

@tomyyoung2624

9 ай бұрын

Yes at all nightmare inducing!!

@chocolate-eclair1234

2 ай бұрын

I hate jaws

4:35 Seen that thing before in a group home for disabled children in the mid-late 2000's, it was called a "Springboard" and the non-verbal children would use it to communicate, before iPads became available enough for group homes to adopt those. I remember one of the children at the group home had a compulsion to say he wanted whatever he decided he was going to eat off his plate before eating, so it'd go like this: [has special juice with vitamins and stuff because he was a very picky eater] [taps button] I [taps another button] WANT [taps another button] DRINK [drinks juice] I imitated the voice a few times and once jokingly hit "Apple" over and over again. APPLE. APPLE. APPLE. APPLE. The non-verbal user of the Springboard was amused by me screwing with the device and started repeatedly hitting APPLE to show his amusement.

@douro20

4 ай бұрын

Those things were just as expensive, if not even more so, than the DECtalk itself. The assistive device industry is so insular that the manufacturers could basically set whatever price they want for these and people will pay it- pretty much the sky is the limit.

That rendition of Spooky Scary Skeletons scared the living crap out of me.

@brokenacoustic

5 жыл бұрын

I loved it!

@Mick_92

5 жыл бұрын

My Rittle Pony

@Vostok7

5 жыл бұрын

AEIOU

@Aalienik

5 жыл бұрын

It sent shivers down my spine.

@HellJustFroze

5 жыл бұрын

As opposed to the undead crap?

*Types "I love you". Presses play repeatedly while crying.

@FrekansTV

5 жыл бұрын

lol

@thelegendaryklobb2879

5 жыл бұрын

*Sad violin kicks in*

@Yusuke_Denton

5 жыл бұрын

**Computer shuts itself off.**

@povnw8985

5 жыл бұрын

404 error. Phucks not found. 😹

@Sercil00

5 жыл бұрын

Time to build an android woman around it and build the speaker in her mouth.

Fitter, happier More productive Comfortable Not drinking too much...........

@cbdgames7139

5 жыл бұрын

Sapfu100 regular exercise at the gym(3 days a week)

@lucashoffmannn

5 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking about typing this into the emulator he mentioned

@oneminutefixed5003

4 жыл бұрын

Damn you beat me to it

@matthewfranklin7541

4 жыл бұрын

Will frequently check credit at moral bank, hole in wall

Boy; the amount of time that must've been spent aligning the camera with the background and table. Well done.

I love that we can see your face in the reflection. Feels like I'm watching a Strong Bad Email.

@aeriumsoft

4 жыл бұрын

ah strong bad emails, those were the days

@comicsansgreenkirby

4 жыл бұрын

Trogdor still lives homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html They even have board games at the homepage

@someguystudios23

4 жыл бұрын

What's gonna happen once flash craps itself?

My mum used to have one of these on her computer in the 90's because she is vision impaired. This is a real flash back.

you mentioned dynavox once in the video, my mother used the tobii dynavox with eye motion since she lost the ability to speak clearly and was unable to control a computer like she used too. paired with alexa, we could here it telling alexa what to do. dynavox: alexa change channel to 164 alexa: changing to channel 164 on fios *tv channel was changed*

Thank you for making it say farts, I knew I could count on you.

I love how old computers sound like someone talking while they are breathing in, if you don't know what I'm talking about... talk while you are breathing in... it's hysterical. Be careful it can make you a little light headed.

@robbinhasseltof4428

5 жыл бұрын

Aadin Heals don’t try this when eating chocolate it will sufficate you

@kbhasi

5 жыл бұрын

Oh! I just tried it (just a little bit) and I know what you mean.

@Roanoak

5 жыл бұрын

@@robbinhasseltof4428 or tidepods

@DjAle1

5 жыл бұрын

I'm crying 😂

I'm a web developer and quite often work with JAWS to make sure sites are accessible, I had no idea it went so far back!!

@BBC600

5 жыл бұрын

Hanna I had heard of it being an accessible software but I too didn’t know it went back to DOS days. Learn something new everyday!

@sarno97

5 жыл бұрын

And you have dragon maid as your servant right?

@MagicalAuroraDream

5 жыл бұрын

Neither did I until recently, and I had no clue this early version was freeware. I started using JAWS in demo mode as a kid in the late 90s and have seen it grow a lot, but wow! It's all pretty amazing!.

@superfreq7378

5 жыл бұрын

From a screen reader user, thanks for everything you do. We really appreciate it!

@MagicalAuroraDream

5 жыл бұрын

Sound Thinking You said it! I had no real idea what goes into web access until I worked in my university's office of disability services the last two semesters. As a JAWS user, I was never on the other side of access. I need things accessible but never thought what went into making that happen. This was a new realm for those I worked with to explore. We were learning from the ground up about web access. However, we tried our best to do accessibility reviews for school web pages. The absolute amount of minutia needed to be complient through things like the WCAG 2.0/2.1 levels A at bare minimum, AA preferably, but AAA ideally astounds me. It took months for us to learn how to even properly review our web pages. We eventually found a template that worked for us and reviewed several pages using WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines. I can't imagine how difficult it might be to create those pages. Anyway, my point is I have massive respect for web and app devs, especially those who can make their pages easily accessible to screen reader users and others. Thank you for your hard work, Hanna.

Putting a speaker on top of a box floppies ... that was brave.

@GashimahironChl

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a bit of a gamble, but i don't think that weak mono speaker there will demagnetize the floppies from that far away.

@alteregoantergos4858

5 жыл бұрын

@@GashimahironChl Mono speaker?

@GashimahironChl

5 жыл бұрын

I mean, it's a single speaker so i guess saying it's a mono speaker was kinda redundant.

@alteregoantergos4858

5 жыл бұрын

@@GashimahironChl ;)

@Rad-Dude63andathird

4 жыл бұрын

Speakers can damage floppies magnetically? Can someone explain?

The whole speech synthesis is really cool, and the DECtalk singing reminds me of the really early VOCALOID software created by Yamaha from the early 2000's or a lot of the UTAUloid voices (freeware VOCALOID) (yes we all expected that some weeb would mention Vocaloids)

@enderjed2523

2 жыл бұрын

DECtalk is in Chipspeech, which is like a Vocaloid museum.

@okamichronicle2428

2 жыл бұрын

Well someone did turn dectalk Paul into an utaloid it’s pretty similar to a vocaloid kzread.info/dash/bejne/foeFrJevnLrcZc4.html

8:47 - let's get the speaker on to a tray....nice.

@najila4291

5 жыл бұрын

Ha I get it

@TheDutchShepherd

5 жыл бұрын

No hiss

@Amdlo

5 жыл бұрын

lol

@aw4483

5 жыл бұрын

@Kevin Amandius Køhler Not as good as the US MRE spoons I hear

"Drying mode on. Jacket drying. Your jacket is now dry."

@M0rinkashi

5 жыл бұрын

*_BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!_*

@fuzzydunlop1753

4 жыл бұрын

And here we are in 2020 and we still don't have that technology. Or hoverboards for that matter.. :(

@marcusborderlands6177

2 жыл бұрын

@@fuzzydunlop1753 we just made jackets that don't get wet

I enjoyed this. I never had the PC card but the DecTalk express synthesizer. I'm a blind user and relied on that for my computing needs - funny how I've gone entirely iOS these days and braille in text rather than typing but there it is. Thanks for the video.

@gregorymalchuk272

3 жыл бұрын

Do you have retinitis pigmentosa?

@fawkesrocks

3 жыл бұрын

This is so under appreciated. This device was the predecessor of what we now know was JAWS and VoiceOver, and was the only option for many people until JAWS for DOS came out.

@kimgkomg

2 жыл бұрын

You'll never see the cool graphic in the intro

@derkchurk5879

2 жыл бұрын

@@gregorymalchuk272 bro, he can't read your comment, don't be an ass.

"A swede with a speech impediment". Did you mean a Dane?

@Her_Imperious_Condescension

4 жыл бұрын

@@rastas_4221 Americans don't know any accents. Any American that says they can do "a good Australian accent" either sounds British or like a drunk New Zealander.

@AgentTasmania

4 жыл бұрын

@@Her_Imperious_Condescension South African is also a common result

@NDK0

4 жыл бұрын

No, Swedish sound like a drunkard with a speech impediment, so it was pretty close.

@fuzzydunlop1753

4 жыл бұрын

A swede with a speech impediment? So you mean just a swede?

@cMaXeJIJIo

3 жыл бұрын

Nice one lol

I love those speech synthesizers, they sound sooo terribly retro futuristic! Also, John Madden!

Whoaaa DecTalk Betty, Bam-a-lam!

@killyouridols08

5 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Glover it's the song Black Betty by Ram Jam. It's a play on the lyric" Woah, Black Betty, Bam-a-lam"

"We're whalers on the moon. We're whalers on the moon."

@kobalt_ren01

4 жыл бұрын

We carry a harpoon But there ain't no whales, So we tell tall tales And sing our whaling tune!

@dialupdave6276

3 жыл бұрын

HEY FUTUREAMA!!!!

My New Year’s Resolution is to use “Baby got the diarrhea” in everyday conversation

"Push me. And then just touch me. Till I can get my, satisfaction"

@simontay4851

5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah. its the same voice.

@KRAFTWERK2K6

5 жыл бұрын

Satisfaction Satisfaction Satisfaction

@w1ck3dz0d1ac

5 жыл бұрын

He should play a cover with 8-bit keys...

@lashyndragon

5 жыл бұрын

Put your hands up... Oh wait

@werewolf74

5 жыл бұрын

@@lashyndragon for Detroit, a lovely city.

"sometimes I think about the future of humans and crap" classic LGR

@thelegendaryklobb2879

5 жыл бұрын

The introduction for every voice was just pure gold

@sebione3576

5 жыл бұрын

I don't know about the future of humans, but I'm pretty sure I know what the future of at least one crap is.......

@magead

5 жыл бұрын

@@thelegendaryklobb2879 you can tell he was genuinely having fun with them

@ahl2is

5 жыл бұрын

kill all humans

@earthnugs

5 жыл бұрын

It was very cool to hear an actual Stephen Hawking quote.

I can imagine Betty saying, "I'll see you again, in twenty-five years. Meanwhile." And then incomprehensible screaming.

DECTalk is pretty awesome... it was used as the TTS engine in Moonbase Alpha,, and became the root of many great memes... "I'm gonna eat a pizza* *dials number* *Hello, can i order a pizza?* *no* *Why?* *'Cause you are John Madden*

@WingMaster562

4 жыл бұрын

Dennis Klatt is the first vocaloid

@jhonthewolf

6 ай бұрын

Football

I love the DECtalk. It's perfectly understandable yet still has the "charm" of vintage computing. It's like a monochrome amber display in audio form.

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Clint"

This thing reminds me a lot of Tomodachi Life for the 3DS, especially the singing.

The history of accessibility hardware and software is so fascinating. Imagine what a huge difference this technology made in so many people's lives. In the '90s I had a co-worker who was 100% visually impaired and with the help of technology like this (not sure if it was exactly this) she was the hardest-working, most essential person in our entire office.

@tomypower4898

4 жыл бұрын

Tommy LaKindaSorta Yes drinking too much...

My father in law worked for digital in the 80s and 90s. Can't wait to show him this.

@warrenfrost

5 жыл бұрын

I too worked for DEC in the early 90s as a hardware designer - networking stuff. Good times :)

@DrJatzCrackers

5 жыл бұрын

My first employer used DEC x86 -based PCs running Windows NT Workstation 4.0. Now while NT 4.0 was meh, those PCs were some of the more pleasant to service/work on. Was saddened when they were bought out by Compaq...

PLEASE make DECtalk say "Practice Mode" in that deep voice. I beg you.

@alexhauptmann298

5 жыл бұрын

There's PC ports of DECtalk you can download yourself if you search for them!

CLINT! You`re so soothing to watch and listen to. Of course the topics are close to the heart also, as growing up with C64, Amiga 500 and old PC-games. :D Really appreciate the effort, please keep on going, sir!

Lurrrrvvvv this guys voice, kinda calming. Videos are great too, so thanks and greetings from the Isle of Wight, England .

the cognitive dissonance of hearing that woodgrain make the clang of a hollow sheet of metal is satisfying

I would love someone to code Doom with this so every-time you shoot it says Pew! Pew! Pew! Sure it would be easier to just play a wav, but not nearly as fun.

@MrStabby19812

5 жыл бұрын

Kenneth Pedersen someone modded half life 2 to use nothing but vocal sounds was hilarious

I worked for Digital in Maynard, Mass and this was great watching this. Thank you for your video!! Ken would be proud!

" You have selected Sam as your default computer voice. "

This voice sounds so exceptionally familiar... *Oh my god, no. You take your memes and you think about what you've done!*

@T.Gorzkiewski

5 жыл бұрын

Aeiou.

@OkuriLucy

5 жыл бұрын

Aeiou

@jbiehlable

5 жыл бұрын

@@OkuriLucy Alue.

@josephharold808

4 жыл бұрын

John Madden

YOUR JACKET IS NOW *D R Y*

@SquishyZoran

5 жыл бұрын

You need more likes!

@KRAFTWERK2K6

5 жыл бұрын

WELCOME HOME, JENNIFER.

@SquishyZoran

5 жыл бұрын

KRAFTWERK2K6 I forgot about that one!

@MilesPrower1992

5 жыл бұрын

Eeeeeeeee! Your jacket is now jry

THAT SHORT CIRCUIT FACT BLEW MY MIND AND MAKES SO MUCH SENSE!!!

been watching you since when you were in the 100s of subs, just want to let you know you're doing great. As a tech guy, even in career, i want to let you know I love every video you have put out and has made my life a little easier knowing there's guys like us interested in old tech like myself

Rip Professor Hawking.

Voice turned out to be easy... speech recognition turned out to the hard nut to crack. But in the beginning researchers had it backwards... they thought speech would be difficult to solve.

@handsomebrick

5 жыл бұрын

Why?!

@kevadu

5 жыл бұрын

Depends what your criteria is I guess. I mean though modern speech synthesizers are certainly understandable there's still a lot of work to be done to make them sound truly human. Speech recognition has also come a long way. It's not 100% accurate of course but then neither are human transcribers...

@evensgrey

5 жыл бұрын

Lots of early AI researchers made this kind of mistake. It was also expected that walking and vision would be easy, but things like advanced symbolic algebra and calculus would be hard (despite complex linear algebra on machines being a solved problem before WWII, look it up, it helped break the ENIAC patent on electronic computers). That was all backwards. Algebra and calculus work on precisely codified rules, which are relatively easy to convert to machine instructions. Walking, talking, seeing, and hearing depend on incredibly complex neurological systems that we still only have a vague understanding of. We basically had to solve all those problems by hand without a lot of guidance from how nature does it. This is why it's taken about 50 years to get autonomous vehicles even close to being ready for general use.

@-DeScruff

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. Its one of those thing that because it comes so easy to us that we assumed it be easy for a machine.. You don't struggle to understand someone with a slightly different accent to you. So why would a machine? But it just went to show us how little we understood how things work, and how complex they truly are.

"Welcome home, Marty... Lord of the Manor... King of the Castle" Love your videos, keep up the great work!

I'm addicted to lgr videos! I watched so many of them in the last few weeks! I f****** love this guy

OMG, this is definitely one of my favorite videos of yours! I use JAWS and its Apple counterpart, VoiceOver, daily. I've been using JAWS since the late 90s, so I never knew how JAWS worked in the early days with hardware voice synthesizers. They still use these voices you covered in things like the talking version of the TI83 graphing calculator. My ears are thankful that synthesized speech has improved dramatically since then, though those old voices are still so much fun. It's amazing now I can just go download so many voices for JAWS off their website, yet people 25+ years ago had to get a whole expensive sound card for JAWS. BTW, JAWS itself is still crazy expensive, costing around $1000 with roughly $240 paid every couple years to keep the software maintinance agreement active. If I hadn't been using JAWS for 20 years I'd probably use a free and very good alternative called NVDA. WHEN I was a kid, I didn't own a full version of JAWS, so had to download the 40 minute demo mode version of JAWS, I think I did this starting with version 4 and ending with version 9.0 when I got the state to pay for it for college,. I downloaded the demos off their website using good ol' America Online!!! No comment, we had AOL until 2008 and no broadband until like 2016. Anyway, man, that thing took all night to download, sometimes never finishing, whereas now I can download a JAWS update in less than a minute... That 40 minute mode was crazy horrible, I'd have to restart my PC literally every 40 minutes. They still use that model for newer JAWS demos today if you're curious how old JAWS 2.3 compares to new JAWS 2018, I think they're calling it. They stopped the numbered releases with JAWS 18 back in like 2017 because they were bought by or merged with another company who chaned the nameing system for JAWS releases. Sorry for my rant, but I loved this video. It's one of my favorites from you, aside from the Sims pack reviews you do which strongly influance my purchases. I've so rarely seen classic speech synthesis covered, even rarer for it to be linked to early JAWS, rarer still for this all to come from a sighted guy. If I'd not been subscribed to you for years already I'd subscribe to you in an instant! You put out some quality videos!

@douro20

4 ай бұрын

There is no incentive to bring the price down considering the narrow target audience- these companies typically have only a few thousand customers at the most and the cost of developing the software is very high. It's the reason why eye trackers still can cost as much as a compact car. Even at that price they are probably not making much profit and they often depend on product support fees. Basically these people can name a price and people will pay it because there is so little competition.

As a swede I must protest

@thelegendaryklobb2879

5 жыл бұрын

Are you by chance a drunken swede?

@FindecanorNotGmail

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a drunken Swede? Nah, he's just speaking Danish.

@thelegendaryklobb2879

5 жыл бұрын

@@FindecanorNotGmail Lol

I'm 70 yrs. old so we had to make our own speech and music synthesizers when we were kids. Its good to see younger people interested in older hardware, not because I'm nostalgic but because you are understanding how things actually work.

Clint, your voice somehow you soothe my soul just listining to you. Keep on man!

19:02 🎶Daisy, daisy, give me your answer, do...🎶

@greenbanana311

4 жыл бұрын

Hey genius - It's "give me your answer _true._

@samdinnan3351

4 жыл бұрын

@@greenbanana311 lol no

I love early speech synthesis. More fun to make a DECtalk say "BUTTSBUTTSBUTTS" than it is to make a modern synthesizer say it.

@rommix0

Жыл бұрын

"Balls, farts, and things!"

I've been watching your videos for a number of years. Talking of voices, I've just realised I love the sound of your voice. You should read bedtime stories

Holly crap. That singing bit would be killer in some new "retro" synthwave stuff. LOL

@Catastropheshe

4 жыл бұрын

Plus floppy drives as instruments

@BlueMoon1890

2 жыл бұрын

I found a song called "Hello World" by Louie Zong that sounds a lot like it uses the DECTalk voice, so there's that. It's a cute song too.

@WR3ND

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlueMoon1890 Thanks. It was fun.

You're telling me that the DEC Talk is responsible for John MADDEN?

@Firestorm2900

5 жыл бұрын

aeiou

@LunaTulpa

5 жыл бұрын

FOOTBALL

@jSyndeoMusic

5 жыл бұрын

_BIG AMERICAN TTS_

@jSyndeoMusic

5 жыл бұрын

A meta layer of humor is that TTS is an acronym for “Text-to-Speech”. LOL

@DonAle_97

5 жыл бұрын

Steve Madden

R.I.P Stephen Hawking

@vasili1207

5 жыл бұрын

@@bmhater1283 U

@kbhasi

5 жыл бұрын

N

@TheBodgybrothers

5 жыл бұрын

@@kbhasi saved it. Good man.

@alexchavez4978

5 жыл бұрын

Rest in piss

@TheLegendInYou

4 жыл бұрын

I was never a big fan of Steve. He was an extreme pessimist that claimed all roads lead to doom. He was too smart for his own good.

Jeeez, really great vid! Loved every minute!

So told in detail about everything. You are well done!

Dude, your laugh is amazing. It’s so wholesome 😊 please continue making amazing content like this!

I do remember hearing about preserving Steven Hawking's speech synthesizer, then needed an emulation of a certain obscure CPU. And they needed help a SNES-turned-multi-console emulator called higan. The author that glad his effort to more accurately emulate whichever game it was that used whatever "enhancement chip" which had that CPU embedded inside, could turn into something more significant.

@daveloomis

5 жыл бұрын

Can you elaborate or post a source or article? This sounds fascinating.

@JunafaniFIN

5 жыл бұрын

@@daveloomis www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-Silicon-Valley-quest-to-preserve-Stephen-12759775.php Here you go.

@MrMiss-cp9bw

5 жыл бұрын

@@daveloomis "Steven Hawking's speech synthesizer snes higan" You're seriously stupid and lazy..

@CultOfTheGlenda

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrMiss-cp9bw And you are a prick. Besides everyone gets different results that are tailored to them, so you are stupid.

@vincentwilliams9863

5 жыл бұрын

David Loomis www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-Silicon-Valley-quest-to-preserve-Stephen-12759775.php a pretty good write up on the whole ordeal

Nice to be reminded of the need and usefulness of this piece of hardware. A lot of people were very grateful for this.

LOL, Short Circuit. I love you man that's the first movie my mind went to.

While this particular variant of the DEC Talk is obsolete there are some PBX's out there still using the stand alone units to this day.

@matthewbowen5841

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the National Weather Service warnings/tests sound 100% DECtalk

@texaswilliam

5 жыл бұрын

That's called ROI. : P

Fitter Happier More productive Regular exercise at the gym Three days a week

@PrickSlickfield

5 жыл бұрын

a pig in a cage on antibiotics

@lemonworm

5 жыл бұрын

came looking for this comment :)

@Somefool669

5 жыл бұрын

@@lemonworm same here! :)

That's a beatiful thing! Thank you for your review!

Always happy to see a new odds are! These are always so neat!

It was about time you covered this one. I have the old Speak software that can play DECTalk speech without hardware.

@NLind

5 жыл бұрын

Me too, I’m experimenting with it now.

[:nh]I'm gonna eat a pizza. [:dial67589340] Hi, can i order a pizza? [:nv]no! [:nh]why? [:nv] cuz you are john madden![:np]

@HobkinBoi

5 жыл бұрын

Moonbase Alpha.

@vgcf86

5 жыл бұрын

Mohn Jadden

@metallicarabbit

5 жыл бұрын

AEIOU

@BgT1990

5 жыл бұрын

mamma mia, pappa pia

@mattcrowley8993

5 жыл бұрын

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I live for LGR videos. Thank you!

awesome coverage!

That Bonzai Buddy popup got me, great, if not odd, episode. Well done Clint.

"Swede with a speech impediment." Isn't that a Dane? ;-) (Love you guys.)

@keithbrown7685

5 жыл бұрын

It's a Finn! Everybody knows it's a Finn. Except the Finns, who are in denial.

@thkarape

5 жыл бұрын

Nah the danes sound like drunk germans trying to speak norwegian

"Balls and farts and things!" That's gonna be my go-to for testing speech synthesis from now on.

Thank you. Excellent stuff. I have laways loved speech synthesis since my C64 days (Impossible Mission, ACE, Chimera are three that spring instantly to mind). I still have a Currah Speech cartridge for my C64 somewhere.

Jobel is a speech syntesizer CONFIRMED D:

@adamszuszkiewicz1709

5 жыл бұрын

Ye olde BBQ shoe boy

@bs_blackscout

5 жыл бұрын

Mfw Jobel could be literally anyone but we all know exactly which.

@viscountalpha

5 жыл бұрын

@@bs_blackscout joel gets angrier every day.

"A cross between a Swede, and an Indian" ... "A drunken Swede." "A Swede with a speech impediment" ...all the Descriptions of the Voice are just Describing a Dane....

@nestrac

5 жыл бұрын

Well.... Being a Dane it's hard to deny those facts... 😆

@ElectroIsMyReligion

5 жыл бұрын

shut up you idiot

@user-yv2cz8oj1k

4 жыл бұрын

Surely if they're drunk they are probably Norwegian. 🤣

So glad you referenced Short Curcuit and Back to the Future! Full marks 😁

Amazing as always!

Wel-come home, Mar-ty. Lord of the Ma-nor... King of the Cast-le...

Really nobody is gonna talk about this mans supersonic type-speed?

@MrMiss-cp9bw

5 жыл бұрын

Not that impressive 😉 10:08 Look at the screen - It's edited 😂

@NordiusOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

I know

This is a superb video and well researched as always. I am registered blind myself and I really liked the fact you ran it with JAWS to show people how the screen reader works. Its worth noticing that this speech synth gets commonly confused with the Macintosh system voice, which is used for example on the benny benassi Satisfaction track. There are some Dectalk voices used in some tracks, the only one I know of is Mike Oldfield's Surfing on the Light and Shade album. The TextAssist package from Creative which they shipped with some of their soundcards (with utilities such as TextOle etc) also used the Dectalk voice, for a long while this is what I used to read documents as back then a Dectalk synth plus screen reader (without the cost of the computer) would probably set you back just over $2000. Of course these days we use JAWS for Windows with software speech synthesis, but during the 90's you just couldn't get responsive speech output quickly enough without using dedicated hardware such as this. I actually have a Dectalk Express somewhere myself, this is the same as the Dectalk PC but in an external package with a serial port, the advantage of this was that it worked past Windows NT (the Dectalk PC being an ISA card). You may not know but the software on the Dectalks is actually on flash ROM, and you could upgrade this, but the version you have I believe is the best and the last version done by DEC.

Solid episode, LGR!

9:01 - All I can think of “omg I hope that speaker is magnetically shielded!” As he places it on the disk holder

I'd make a Half-Life 1 joke, but god only knows what those soldiers are saying

@BarnacleButtock

5 жыл бұрын

Half Life 1 used a hand-programmed speech system with prerecorded phrases and programmed sentences based on environmental variables. Not even close to TTS.

@CptCPT-dl9lh

5 жыл бұрын

@@BarnacleButtock I'm not claiming that.

@sebione3576

5 жыл бұрын

I know what they're saying... "GRENADE!!!"

@KuroOldAccount

5 жыл бұрын

Faire in thehole

@General_Griffin

5 жыл бұрын

@@BarnacleButtock So you're saying that they turned text into speech? Yeah, man that's totally different than TTS... You're so smart.

Enjoy this video a lot. Learn something new every time. While having a laugh as well.

Watching this in January 2020, and I just noticed Outpost 2 on the lower right (my right) shelf behind you. I loved that game as a kid, and the included novelisation of the game's story was probably what got me into reading books in the first place. Here's hoping for a video on Outpost 2 some day. :)

The PC needed a $1200 extension, the Amiga did it out of the box. AmigaOS 2.0 actually had the same voice.

@vwestlife

5 жыл бұрын

As did Mac OS. In fact, even today Mac OS still offers the classic DECtalk-style voices, in addition to more modern text-to-speed synthesis.

@20windfisch11

5 жыл бұрын

VWestlife What was great about the Amiga version, it was based on the earlier S.A.M. for C64 and Atari (the latter had that iconic voice used in U96’s Techno version of the “Das Boot” theme), so it had a phoneme mode where you could let it speak other languages, albeit with an American accent. I had great fun with it.

YESSSS!!! Do the DEC Rainbow. My roommate had one in college and since I couldn't afford my own PC, I shared his. Best feature was ability to boot into "terminal mode" and directly login to the various mainframes or mini computers around campus.

@blahorgaslisk7763

5 жыл бұрын

As I remember it the DEC Rainbow was able to run CP/M and DOS. I think it was somewhat less than perfectly PC compatible, more like something in the 80 - 90% range when it came to software compatibility. There were some talk about the disk drives not being at all compatible, I think. It's been ages since, but I remember there were talks about these being bought for schools, and that the compatibility problems were quite bad. I also remember DEC claiming they would be able to fix the problems with some kind of upgrade. The Rainbow was far from alone having compatibility problems at the time. A large (at the time) computer manufacturer I worked for had serious problems with their PC clones. IBM had cracked down on the pure clone market, so now instead of just making a carbon copy ot the PC BIOS manufacturers had to write their own. It was bad enough we kept loads of BIOS versions on hand. That way you could sometimes find a version that let a customer run most or even all of the programs they wanted. Usually though you would have to say something like "No Sir. You can either run WP, Graph in the Box and Lotus 123, or you can run WP and FoxPro. We don't have a bios that supports all of them." And I remember a computer magazine using MS Flight Simulator as part of their compatibility test suit. I remember that a lot of the the tested machines wouldn't pass the compatibility test suit, and MS Flight was quite often the one they failed on. Fortunately it improved quickly from there. The company I worked for solved their problems by buying a few other companies that actually made working PC compatibles...

@alliejr

5 жыл бұрын

Blahorga Slisk Yes! You memory is accurate and true in this regard. The Rainbow slightly preceded the true “cheap” PC clones (lead by Compaq and later Dell) so it was an “MS-DOS” machine and not 100% compatible clone.

@blahorgaslisk7763

5 жыл бұрын

@@alliejr I'd hardly describe my memory as accurate, more like unorganized and leaking like a sieve. But occasionally something sparks and a memory comes tumbling to the fore. I remember the Rainbow because, actually I don't really know why... It might just have been the name, or perhaps they had a logo that got stuck in my memory. Sometimes I fear i'm experiencing the onset of Alzheimer, but then I remember that if that's the case then I soon won't have anything to worry about. So no worries...

2:40 Dude!!! I no longer regret staying up all night because I found your video and learned this... that’s so cool

Wow! So lots of nostalgic feelings! Even I've never used this synthesizer I heard it a lot! Since childhood!

Now you can spam wwwwwwwwwwwwww at relatives irl. Gg

Greetings and welcome to an LGR, PC Speech Synthesizer thing.

Nice vid LGR. You're game putting the speaker on your disks even though it's a weak speaker 😯. Still love your videos and your voice (strangely) 👍 👍

Great video. I'm glad you didn't go into setup on that board. If I would have heard anything about DMA's and IRQ's, I would have had nightmares for weeks, lol.