[LAU] Synthesized voices [was :Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)]

[SxDx]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey at boosthardware.com>
> To: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org
> Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 11:25:26 PM
> Subject: [LAU] Synthesized voices [was :Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)]
> 
> 
> On Sun, September 2, 2012 6:18 am, SxDx wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
> >> The East West Choirs sing your lyrics. It's not another Ahhhh or
> >> Ohhhh
> >> sample ;).
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI5Gg2-mhmU
> >
> > any technical info on that? free software doing the same, research
> > papers
> > (easily available), anything?
> >
> 
> As an aside, one possible way of dealing with this issue is to create
> your
> own voices for applications like orca.
> 
> If you want a quick and easy way to get started with that process you
> can
> run "AT Distro" in a virtual machine.
> 
> http://atdistro.com

thanks for pointing that out. I tried a bit, it's slow
in qemu (expected). But it seems orca uses espeak, and
the voice is not realistic. What we hear in the video
above is much more realistic and I wondered how they do
that. Seems it's not public knowledge.

Thanks anyway.