Re: Are thereAny other DECtalk/tts archives?
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To be honest the archive is static and hasn't had any modifications in ages.
Searching internet archive just doesn't find much at all so who knows.
My suspician is that everyone that did this stuff has moved on.
What you must remember is that the dectalk stuff was isa or early pci at best with externals being on serial rs232 ports either 24 or 9pin female to male converters.
You don't have that stuff much anymore.
With basically the death of ssil synths and serial synths, no one handles those beasts anymore.
I got a cheap well not really but old shortwave scanner for use locally and found little to satisfy my listening pleasures and it appears I am an old timer that hasn't realised that that world is gone and dead.
I forgot the name of the user but there is probably a few bits of tts skits and such on youtube.
Now you can't really buy dectalk, well you can buy a double talk and dectalk but a full dectalk is 600 bucks us.
With the event of software speech, no one uses this sort of old tech anymore.
And where you want to, you can pick up chip synth analog voice modulation baniks for that use in your software of choice.
And no one has dropped a soundfont of this stuff and as it is, while yes you could technically get the stuff written, no one updates that stuff anymore.
There is a constant maintainer userbase on the archive but no one has released anything for ages and ages.
There were at least 4 big names in the archives patrick, jeff, and jason that did a lot on the old days.
I know jayson is monkeying round the ham and emulator curcuit as he appears on net radio as is patrick spiradically.
I know jeff was about for a bit but not sure now.
A lot of the old timers are either dead, or just not doing that sort of thing anymore.
I don't even listen to the archive in fact I have contemplated killing it completely and not renewing my seed to it with resilio synk.
There hasn't been anything for the past 10 years released to the archive and I doubt it ever will.
Worse, the only reason it continues is that old timers like me continue to synk the tiny 2gb of it.
When we all go, I don't imagine the archive will stay up.
A lot of those archives have stopped transmitting.
audio games tracks, the onj tv network, all stopped.
Phonetones does get updates from time to time but not that many.
The chip archive does get updates but not as fast and mostly modifications to existing material.
Point is even with managed stuff like this, interest doesn't stay active unless it does of course.
In some ways I am glad I couldn't have archives growing and growing but yeah its the way it is.
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