[email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a (not neccessarily GENTOO) software, whith which > it is possible to synthesize the human voice (male / female). > > It does not neccessarily need to be a TTS (I tried some) -- but the > voice needs easily to be tuned in the sense of pitch and sound. > > Suppose you want a synthetic voice of Frodo talking some Tengwar (and > dont want to mimic the movies actors ;) or the northern slang of some > Elbish ... ;) > > Another example would be vocaloid (commercial product). > > Is there some software of this kind somewhere for Linux? > > Thanks a lot for any voice coming up for this ! :)))
It's some years ago that I use speech synthesizers and I can't remember all details. First I use mbrola for some years. Unfortunately it is not an open source program but it is available for gentoo. For some reason (that I don't remember, maybe because it's not open source or maybe because there is no 64bit binary) I switched over to espeak. Later I also used festival. But I still used the mbrola voices together with espeak and also with festival because they have a very good quality (I downloaded some high quality mbrola voices from the mbrola homepage). -- Regards wabe
