Re: [LAU] Synthesized voices [was :Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)]
3 Sep
2012
3 Sep
'12
1:04 a.m.
On Mon, September 3, 2012 6:46 am, SxDx wrote:
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.
You can create your own voices so the default voice should not be used as
the reference for a singing voice. Even then I was amazed by how close to
real it sounded for chanting emulation.
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>
> To: linux-audio-user(a)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(a)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 What we hear in the video
above is much more realistic and I wondered how they do
that. Seems it's not public knowledge.
TTS is a huge research area.
Some people are putting their work online.
http://gitorious.org/lauloid
http://stephane.magnenat.net/music.html
IIRC there is some very advanced open source voice synth software
originating in France. I can't recall the name of the institute who
sponsors the development but I'm sure there are others on this list who
know of it.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
3 Sep
3 Sep
1:29 a.m.
New subject: Synthesized voices [was :Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)]
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
TTS is a huge research area.
Some people are putting their work online.
http://gitorious.org/lauloid
http://stephane.magnenat.net/music.html
IIRC there is some very advanced open source voice synth software
originating in France. I can't recall the name of the institute who
sponsors the development but I'm sure there are others on this list who
know of it.
UniMRCP?
http://www.unimrcp.org/
Lumenvox and Loquendo (Nuance) are two commercial products I am
familiar with, that provide TTS & ASR and run on Linux.
--
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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"In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it,
it would overturn the world."
-- Jelaleddin Rumi
3:18 a.m.
New subject: Synthesized voices [was :Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)]
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Brett McCoy <idragosani(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
It's not open source, but Mbrola
(http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html) produces interesting
results.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZsfJ0oJsWE
TTS is a huge research area.
Some people are putting their work online.
http://gitorious.org/lauloid
http://stephane.magnenat.net/music.html
IIRC there is some very advanced open source voice synth software
originating in France. I can't recall the name of the institute who
sponsors the development but I'm sure there are others on this list who
know of it.
UniMRCP?
http://www.unimrcp.org/
3:02 a.m.
New subject: Synthesized voices
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 09:04:22 +1000 (EST)
"Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
On Mon, September 3, 2012 6:46 am, SxDx wrote:
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.
You can create your own voices so the default voice should not be used as
the reference for a singing voice. Even then I was amazed by how close to
real it sounded for chanting emulation.
Ah, lauloid. The beauty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIlSoi8ygfs
Still better than the free software song.
No, to be fair this from February, the project was created 31. January 2012 on Gitorious.
There is an audio sample in the git which has a horrible mix but it magnitudes better than
the youtube video here.
I'm going to trying to compile that now, there are many different parts in the git
repository. But it seems there is zero documentation.
Nils
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>
> To: linux-audio-user(a)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(a)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 What we hear in the video
above is much more realistic and I wondered how they do
that. Seems it's not public knowledge.
TTS is a huge research area.
Some people are putting their work online.
http://gitorious.org/lauloid
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