[linux-audio-dev] Retro speech synthesis

[David Olofson]

On Monday 24 November 2003 19.42, Frank Neumann wrote:
[...]
> I was wondering for a while when some older geek will start
> porting/rewriting e.g. the old Amiga's narrator.device for Linux -

Actually, I was surfing around, looking for that a moment ago. Can't 
seem to find any source code, though. (Didn't really expect to.) Is 
it available?


> or, even more retro, what about S.A.M. (Software Automatic Mouth)
> from the 8-bit Atari machines, dated around 1985? Ah, those were
> the times.. :-)

Yeah, that's another though... I guess one way would be to replace the 
synthesis stage of some current TTS system with a chip emulator style 
synth. Or how about hacking a LADSPA or JACK wrapper that generates 
control output that you can use to drive a modular synth?


//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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