Speech engine

I never thought it would be so hard but recently i went looking for an old speech engine (the one used by Stephen Hawking) and i cannot find it anywhere.

It seems to be impossible to find.

If any of you know where I can download it (win platform) could you please tell me where?

It would be much appreciated. thank you :smiling:

hawking supposedly uses a hardware speech box, the Dectalk DTC01. I'm not sure of any perfect software emulations but there may be one

the wike has some good info on that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis

the speech synthesis hawkins uses falls into the "formant synthesis" category if i remember well.

there are lots of online demo's of text to speech systems in general. some will probably have some vintage option for choosing a hawkins like voice.

Hawkings reminds me of ST Speech, which was an Atari ST program. You can find ST Speech pretty easy online, but you'll need a GEM emulator to run it.

Drahken I love you man, I didn't know about ST Speech.. it's great!

stspeech.zip

Steem Atari ST emulator

okay, I fucking love syng2 @ http://www.xoxos.net/, there, I said it. Just fucking set it up and have fun and make it talk gibberish to a sequenced melody, you need to route 2 midi tracks to it(one for pitch, one for the different shapes of the mouth, vowels, consenants, etc.). I just made a track with it and it is fucking insane. I also violently automated the formant shift parameter, which is highly recommended.