DecTalk Experiment by DJ Allegretto - the Nanometer LOL dance (Warning: repetitive)
Channel: DJ Allegretto
Date: 28/11/2019

Please read the description of the video before listening to it, otherwise you may not understand what is happening. This is an experiment, the third version of it, of a song called the Nanometer LOL Dance that I have written just for this experiment for DecTalk. Like I mentioned in the title of the video, it is repetitive. Do you remember a singing speech synthesizer from the 1980s called DecTalk? Well, that's what this is. This is an experiment where I put 3 DecTalk voices singing together harmonizing with each other. I also used the midi format and made DecTalk sing along with a beat. I accomplish this by making sure that the phoneme lengths (in milliseconds) were about the same, and by changing the tempo of the midi file by inserting tempo change commands at certain parts of the file. The tempo changes are so subtle that you might not even notice them. Besides Nanometer LOL, DecTalk says other things as well. I experimented with DecTalk phonemes and different languages that people speak. In this case, DecTalk is trying to say "nouăzeci, nouăzeci și nouă," Which, from Romanian to English, translates to "ninety, ninety-nine." I had to do some researching on that one because I don't know much foreign languages except for Spanish, but hopefully I did it right. Also, towards the beginning of its segments, it says, "I like to listen to music all day long, but I know I have lots of homework to do. Maybe after I finish all my homework, I can sing this song like I do every day." Anyway, that's basically what this is.