FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 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. For audio examples, check Your browser does not support the HTML5 audio tag http://retrobits.net/atari/downloads/sam.mp3 and 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. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide FLA FUR BIS FLE's signature Hide all signatures through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 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... Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-915592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maus Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 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. c Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-915594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzado Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 something like this? 001.wavFetching info... Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide Alzado's signature Hide all signatures RIP Farm Eagle Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-915641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mrx Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 have you checked out cantor2? http://www.virsyn.de/en/E_Products/E_CANTOR/e_cantor.html Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-915764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted January 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 LOL Alzado said: something like this? 001.wavFetching info... 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. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide FLA FUR BIS FLE's signature Hide all signatures through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-915940 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzado Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 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. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide Alzado's signature Hide all signatures RIP Farm Eagle Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-915958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted January 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 Jesus, analogx. I remember the "vocal remover". Their website hasn't changed in an age. Thx for the reminder d00d. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide FLA FUR BIS FLE's signature Hide all signatures through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-915975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-915977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted January 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 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. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide FLA FUR BIS FLE's signature Hide all signatures through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-915987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 speccy emu + http://uk.doperoms.com/roms/sinclair_zx_sp...5Ba%5D.zip.html i used to have the actual hardware :( Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide kaini's signature Hide all signatures On 5/7/2013 at 11:06 PM, ambermonk said: I know IDM can be extreme On 6/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, ladalaika said: this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-915991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomeperson Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 We already have one Cylob. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-915993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted January 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 don't make presumptions, retard. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide FLA FUR BIS FLE's signature Hide all signatures through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-916011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mrx Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 yamaha's vocaloid is also another one, but it has poor a vst interface and takes up a lot of hard drive space. Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-916023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
acid1 Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 I know the somewhat newer versions of FL Studio have text to speech, can't you just formant shift them or apply comb filter? Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-916032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted January 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 (edited) 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. Edited January 7, 2009 by thanks robert moses Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide FLA FUR BIS FLE's signature Hide all signatures through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-916034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomeperson Posted January 8, 2009 Report Share Posted January 8, 2009 thanks robert moses said: don't make presumptions, retard. I know you are that's why you have to copy other people Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-916133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted January 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2009 Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide FLA FUR BIS FLE's signature Hide all signatures through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-916180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest emef Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-917170 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 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) Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide all signatures I haven't eaten a Wagon Wheel since 07/11/07... ilovecubus.co.uk - 25ml of mp3 taken twice daily. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/41409-text-to-speech/#findComment-917228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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