[linux-audio-dev] virtual vocalist - I think we could have something similar without much work...

[Luke Yelavich]

At 08:56 PM 24/11/2003, Juan Linietsky wrote:
>On Thursday 20 November 2003 01:09, Paul Davis wrote:
> >   http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2003/Vocaloid.html
>
>You know, FESTIVAL (the popular and quite good opensource speech synthesis
>package) has a mode where you can feed it data to sing.
>It could probably not be very hard to write a similar GUI where
>you edit a pianoroll to make festival sing.

There is a much better speech synthesizer, known as DECtalk which can sing 
quite well, and it is very easy to programme. The nicer thing is, it is 
available for Linux as well! I have it here, so I will did up a text file, 
and post the resulting OGG if anybody is interested :)

>Seems like a very nice small project, anyone willing to take it?

This beats any vocoder.

Luke
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