[LAU] Voice Synthesis

[Julien Claassen]

Hi Chip!
   As I understand it, a nice channel vocoder would be OK for you. So you could 
use a LADSPA plugin, I blieve there is a vocoder, or youcould use csound, 
which also relates well to JACK and there is a vocoder udo (kind of more 
complex preprogrammed workmodule.
   I belive you could make mbrola sing. But with synthesizers like mbrola and 
festival, the problem is the terms of use for the voices you get. But for 
festival there should be at least two or three free English ones. Festival is 
highly programmable. You can ask it to use an external soundplayer, so youcan 
use something, that works with JACK. But it's not very realtime. I tried and 
results were mixed.
   Good thing about Festival: It's based upon a lot of scheme configuration 
files, controlling every aspect of the software. So you can manipulate it to 
your liking. Bad thing: You need to understand what to do, where to do it and 
how to properly write the scheming language. :-(
   Kindly yours
           Julien

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