On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 7:58 AM Jean Abou Samra <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Le 25 avr. 2023 à 12:55, J Martin Rushton <
> [email protected]> a écrit :
> >
> > I was playing back a MIDI piece and wondered if anyone had ever
> > combined voice synthesis with MIDI?  I know that you can get MIDI
> > "ah"s, but I was meaning voiced from the text like a text reader.
>
> LilyPond comes with a script called "lilysong" that was apparently written
> to do just that, using Festival.
>
> It was unfortunately added without documentation a decade ago and never
> documented, nor much maintained since. I very much doubt that it still
> works, but you can always try.
>

For my wee voicemail greeting, I did it the hard way by hand-coding the XML
file. Festival uses the "Singing" dtd:

<!DOCTYPE SINGING PUBLIC "-//SINGING//DTD SINGING mark
up//EN" "Singing.v0_1.dtd" []>

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