On Monday 24 November 2003 14:11, David Olofson wrote: > Inspired by the Vocaloid thread, an old idea sprung back to mind; > retro "chip style" speech synthesis. > > Is there a simple, minimalistic, Free/Open Source phoneme-to-audio > synthesiser out there? I'm not terribly interested in the > text-to-phonemes part and other higher level stuff, as I intend to > use this for sound effects in games and (other) toys. Doesn't hurt if > CPU and memory requirements are very low, but I'm probably going to > render words and phrases off-line anyway (at install or load time), > for later processing as normal sound effects. > > > //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate >
There is the venerable rsynth proggie. It's really old but it's fun to put the ouput through filters and stuff.. Stil though, it talks very strange... There is also a smaller/reduced version of festival you can try out, but i forgot how it is called. Juan Linietsky
