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" []>
