24 Nov
2003
24 Nov
'03
2:17 p.m.
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