> >You know, FESTIVAL (the popular and quite good opensource speech synthesis > >package) has a mode where you can feed it data to sing. > >It could probably not be very hard to write a similar GUI where > >you edit a pianoroll to make festival sing. > > There is a much better speech synthesizer, known as DECtalk which can sing > quite well, and it is very easy to programme. The nicer thing is, it is > available for Linux as well! I have it here, so I will did up a text file, > and post the resulting OGG if anybody is interested :)
As far as I know, dectalk is commercial, isnt it?
Yes it is, but it doesn't take away the fact that as a speech synth, it is fantastic. However, it only outputs data at 11025 16 bit mono, and uses OSS, so it is not exactly useful in a real-time sense. That is where Festival would be better.
Luke -- Luke Yelavich AudioSlack Founder and head package maintainer Audio software packaged for the Slackware Linux Distribution http://www.audioslack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
