revenantDec 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zq53wGd34E

MAME now supports emulating an East German numbers station speech generator, if that's something you need to have handy for any reason

MAME Showcase Gerät 32620 (Sprach/Morsegenerator): German speech

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Show threadGraham Sutherland / Polynomial
@revenant is "funnunf" a phonetic legibility thing, or just a synth artifact?
Dec 10, 2022 at 8:06pmWeb
Show threadrevenantDec 10, 2022

@gsuberland good question

there are some recordings of the real hardware in the wild but I'm not sure offhand if it's actually meant to sound like that

Show threadrevenantDec 10, 2022

@gsuberland ok yeah you can hear the real thing pronouncing it the same way in this vid https://youtu.be/tFm7Q9-17w0?t=82

i guess it's probably just for clarity, like how it says "zwo" instead of "zwei" and pronounces 9 more like "neuen"

1_07: Gong Station Chimes

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Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialDec 10, 2022
@revenant I've heard "zwo" used in a military context before, so that makes sense.
Show threadStewart RussellDec 11, 2022
@revenant @gsuberland like "fife" and "niner" in NATO phonetics
https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2018_01/20180111_nato-alphabet-sign-signal.pdf
Show threadUncle MikeyDec 11, 2022
@scruss @revenant @gsuberland The analogy with "niner" crossed my mind, as well.
Show thread1-bit machine gothDec 11, 2022
@gsuberland @revenant it's "fünnef" and yes that's a (west german, old) way to pronounce the number five