24 Nov
2003
24 Nov
'03
2:43 p.m.
Hi list,
Juan 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 - 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.. :-)
Frank
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.
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.