25 Nov
2003
25 Nov
'03
5:40 a.m.
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:21:55 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
On Monday 24 November 2003 19.42, Frank Neumann
wrote:
[...]
IIRC if was partly hardware - possibly just the phonomes blown onto a chip
- but you could look in one of the amiga emulator packages.
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? 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?
You can do fun things with formant filters (vowel peaks - theres a dial
that goes from A to EE) and envelope sequencers.
If there isn't a formant filter for LADSPA allready available someone
should make one - the tables of co-efficients are available online.
- Steve