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speech synthesis

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:13 pm
by sakana
Just interested in everyones opinions on and experiences with speech synthesis. I've been trying a few different programs to try and get a feel for it (mainly trying eSpeak atm), but i am finding it hard to imagine ever getting a decent smooth line of speech. I'm gonna mess around with a few samples of it in Reason and Ableton and see what the results are, but was just interested in what (if anything) you all had to say.

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:42 pm
by tripaddict
fl has a built in voice synth but its shit

... and my amiga 500 has one too :):):):)

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:57 pm
by drwurst

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:03 pm
by sakana
drwurst wrote:http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

this one not so bad.
holy shit, this one is a lot better than the others i've been trying, i must fail at the internetz.

thanks a lot man.

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:58 pm
by decree
drwurst wrote:http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

this one not so bad.
oh no the secret is out..... or am I too late by a year or so

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:35 am
by rekall
Decree wrote:
drwurst wrote:http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

this one not so bad.
oh no the secret is out..... or am I too late by a year or so
i first used this in a tune back when i used to use fasttracker ii. (1997 i think.)
i'm glad it's still around and that they keep improving it slowly but surely.

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:18 am
by gorbek

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:22 am
by JFK
Shit talker?

Actually dont bother its fucking crap................

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:15 pm
by deadly_habit
yamaha makes some ill ones

Re: speech synthesis

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 12:39 am
by alphacat

Re: speech synthesis

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 12:42 am
by deadly_habit
at&t, shit talker, yamaha forget the series you have to dig on their japanese sites as mentioned before
actually just snagged an old 80s book that has moog goin in depth on speech synthesis not gonna say the title though

Re: speech synthesis

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:31 am
by alphacat
deadly habit wrote:at&t, shit talker, yamaha forget the series you have to dig on their japanese sites as mentioned before
actually just snagged an old 80s book that has moog goin in depth on speech synthesis not gonna say the title though
You hoarder.

Actually, I don't blame you. Some information retains value by remaining semi-exclusive...

Despite what someone else wrote about ShitTalker, I dig it - the trick is to write things in phonetically and tweak the playback params a little. Doesn't sound like a real person, but that's just fine for electronic music IMHO.