[linux-audio-dev] Retro speech synthesis

[Juan Linietsky]

On Monday 24 November 2003 14:11, David Olofson wrote:
> Inspired by the Vocaloid thread, an old idea sprung back to mind; 
> retro "chip style" speech synthesis.
> 
> Is there a simple, minimalistic, Free/Open Source phoneme-to-audio 
> synthesiser out there? I'm not terribly interested in the 
> text-to-phonemes part and other higher level stuff, as I intend to 
> use this for sound effects in games and (other) toys. Doesn't hurt if 
> CPU and memory requirements are very low, but I'm probably going to 
> render words and phrases off-line anyway (at install or load time), 
> for later processing as normal sound effects.
> 
> 
> //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
> 

There is the venerable rsynth proggie. It's really old but it's fun
to put the ouput through filters and stuff..
Stil though, it talks very strange...
There is also a smaller/reduced version of festival you can try out,
but i forgot how it is called.

Juan Linietsky