On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:21:55 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > On Monday 24 November 2003 19.42, Frank Neumann wrote: > [...] > > I was wondering for a while when some older geek will start > > porting/rewriting e.g. the old Amiga's narrator.device for Linux - > > Actually, I was surfing around, looking for that a moment ago. Can't > seem to find any source code, though. (Didn't really expect to.) Is > it available?
IIRC if was partly hardware - possibly just the phonomes blown onto a chip - but you could look in one of the amiga emulator packages. > Yeah, that's another though... I guess one way would be to replace the > synthesis stage of some current TTS system with a chip emulator style > synth. Or how about hacking a LADSPA or JACK wrapper that generates > control output that you can use to drive a modular synth? You can do fun things with formant filters (vowel peaks - theres a dial that goes from A to EE) and envelope sequencers. If there isn't a formant filter for LADSPA allready available someone should make one - the tables of co-efficients are available online. - Steve
