Text to Speech

So, I haven't used any text to speech software in a few years, and I'm not really interested in accurate text to speech in general. What I am searching for is software that can emit more primitive sounding speech, similar to the early vocal synths on the ZX Spectrum and Commodore computers, OR sounds similar to the IBM 7094 and the "Daisy Bell" vocal synthesis. I've attempted emulation of various programs for each type of computer, and it's more of a headache than I expected. Does anyone here have experience with TTS, and know of something that could possible provide the sound I described? I was delving too deep into vocal synthesis, and realized that I may be able to find what I need within the world of TTS.

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I know this is a bit of a stretch in regards to software, as these sounds were dependent on the hardware and circuitry. I am just trying to get something close.

There was a speech synthesiser app for the Amstrad CPC and Spectrum, but yes it relied on external hardware (still sounded awful lol). You might get lucky and find that someone has been anal enough to write an emulator for one of those machines that also emulates the speech dongle...

clearly the best thing to do would be to ask an out-of-work 1950s hollywood sci-fi movie robot.

they work cheap, and rarely do they object to anything based on content.

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something like this?

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have you checked out cantor2? http://www.virsyn.de/en/E_Products/E_CANTOR/e_cantor.html

  LOL Alzado said:

something like this?

 

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sort of. some of the formants are similar, and it reminds me a bit of the computer from War Games (Matthew Brodericks computer, not the main computer). What did you use for it?

I will give Cantor peep. The audio demos sound promising.

http://www.analogx.com/CONTENTS/download/audio/sayit.htm

it's pretty primitive. but you can control parameters for pitch, speed and modulation. so, if a particular setting is good for one word in your phrase, you can render it and then reset the parameters so they give you what you want for the next word and then render that. then combine them to form your full phrase. a little tedious, but it will give you exactly what you're looking for.

Jesus, analogx. I remember the "vocal remover". Their website hasn't changed in an age. Thx for the reminder d00d.

  thanks robert moses said:

Jesus, analogx. I remember the "vocal remover". Their website hasn't changed in an age. Thx for the reminder d00d.

LOL. I figured you'd already have it given it gets posted in every text-to-speech thread on WATMM ever.

yeah i've used Sayit loads in the past, but I remember at the time, I was trying to get something more human like out of text to speech. Now I just want shit. As shit as can be, but still usable.

speccy emu + http://uk.doperoms.com/roms/sinclair_zx_sp...5Ba%5D.zip.html

i used to have the actual hardware :(

We already have one Cylob.

don't make presumptions, retard.

yamaha's vocaloid is also another one, but it has poor a vst interface and takes up a lot of hard drive space.

I know the somewhat newer versions of FL Studio have text to speech, can't you just formant shift them or apply comb filter?

  acid1 said:

I know the somewhat newer versions of FL Studio have text to speech, can't you just formant shift them or apply comb filter?

I've attempted something like this with a vocoder and pitch tracking, but i'm not getting the results I'd like.

going to give that rom a shot, kaini.

  thanks robert moses said:

don't make presumptions, retard.

I know you are that's why you have to copy other people

shittalker 1.2 is a pretty good text to speech program

its the free standalone version of the speech software used in flstudio 8

get it here

The Amiga speech synth built into Workbench is pretty similar to the example you posted, so you could try that (PM me if you need help/files to get it to work)