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| 2469.1 | I am perfect! Are you? | LNGBCH::STEWART | Instant gratification takes 2 long! | Wed Oct 10 1990 22:48 | 12 |
| What's the best way (set-up, mechanism, trick) to incorporate this
"conversation" in a live show?
Lots of overworked fog machines and a Hammond B3 rigged to fall
over easily worked back in the early 70's. Keith Emerson got a
lot of mileage out of this stuff on the Brain Salad Surgery tour.
How are you going to drive the DECtalk box? Is the timing built
into your software, or are you going to have to trigger the
responses?
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| 2469.2 | I've done it | VICE::JANZEN | Tom MLO21-4/E10 223-5140 | Thu Oct 11 1990 09:57 | 10 |
| I've used synthesized voice in live performance. I just put it on tape, but it
could have worked live easily, even more easily. It was a Commodore Amiga (R).
In my script, the voice started and I practiced answering. It was the
instructions for launching an ICBM. The computer would say,
"Turn VSRB to position three."
me live:
"VSRB to Position three."
etc. for about 20 lines.
Tom
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| 2469.3 | -< Details, details >-< Details, details > | KAOSWS::PARISEAU | MIDI? Isn't that French for NOON? | Thu Oct 11 1990 13:00 | 13 |
| re: .2
I didn't want to skew the answers by saying "I want to tape it and
play it back on stage"...but that was what I figured I'd have to do.
Which brings me to ...
re: .3
Once you have the thing recorded and the tape plugged into the board,
what are some techniques used to trigger it? Footswitch on remote?
Telepathy? Well aimed ball bearing at the play button?
Robert
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| 2469.4 | technique | VICE::JANZEN | Tom MLO21-4/E10 223-5140 | Thu Oct 11 1990 13:11 | 5 |
| My sound engineer/actor/lighting person ran the tape on cue, which had
the computer speech with quiet spaces between for me to speak.
If i had used the computer I could have hit a return key or something to
cue the whole speech or each individual speech.
Tom
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| 2469.5 | I guess there are no whiz-bang solutions. | KAOSWS::PARISEAU | MIDI? Isn't that French for NOON? | Thu Oct 11 1990 13:17 | 4 |
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Thanks! I'll try that.
Robert
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| 2469.6 | Portable PC driving the DECtalk | RIPPLE::LUKE_TE | | Thu Oct 11 1990 14:56 | 12 |
| I did a little live presentation at my boy's school a few times.
I drove the DECtalk with a portable PC. I simply wrote a few line
BASIC program that read in a line from a file and output it through
the serial port. It would then wait for RETURN, then read the next
line and output it through the serial port. The DECtalk was hooked
to the serial port. That way I didn't have to worry about timing
blank spaces or anything which was important because I included
some audience interaction which is hard to predict. I also didn't
want the DECtalk talking over any audience laughter.
Are you going to let the DECtalk do any singing?
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| 2469.7 | Ding Dong! It's the Digital Lady. | KAOSWS::PARISEAU | MIDI? Isn't that French for NOON? | Thu Oct 11 1990 18:33 | 22 |
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I don't necessarily want to buy a DECtalk, (unless I can get one at
an affordable price) thus I need to record the thang...
(Hmmm! I could always sample the DECtalk voice...if I had a sampler.)
I haven't decided whether I will converse with the thing, live on stage
or if I will record the whole conversation and simply playback during
the show. The conversation is about an 8 sentence exchange between a
female voice speaking in French (you can do that if you give DECtalk
the proper phonem-based text...it just has a thick English accent,
which is perfect for this lady's part) and a human speaking in French
(he has a thick French [Parisian] accent).
I guess the live thing is more entertaining, but there are plenty of
sound-effects during the conversation that can be done live via any
type of MIDI trigger device...and that could be just as entertaining.
All this is done over a funky background riff. The conversation is
of a steamy nature and involves virtual reality where human-machine
interfaces allow you to plug into your favorite fantasy. It's called
Database Darling.
Robert
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