Hi list, Juan 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. > > > 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.
I was wondering for a while when some older geek will start porting/rewriting e.g. the old Amiga's narrator.device for Linux - or, even more retro, what about S.A.M. (Software Automatic Mouth) from the 8-bit Atari machines, dated around 1985? Ah, those were the times.. :-) Frank
