Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
Yes, sure I'm weird and proud of it! Am I gonna do one? Don't know, my american, hell even English accent isn't that good, but we'll see, who knows what might happen if I get bored enough. Anyway, is that a hint, Rachel? Vanja http://www.sudar.co.uk MSN messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vanja121 Skype: vanja121 - Original Message - From: Rachel D Keyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:39 AM Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices! Vanja, you're weird! Ditto! I wouldn't mind certain people doing that but as I say, this one was only out of curiosity of what the whole thing sounds like as a package. hmmm Vanja, are you gunna do one? hahaha! (kidding of course :) At 10:32 AM 17/08/2006, you wrote: Well you never know steve, maybe Rachel finds your voice sexy, lol. I sure wouldn't mind certain people trying doing their own version, although I guess when synthetic thay don't exactly sound as sexy, still...when there's nothing else better available... Vanja http://www.sudar.co.uk MSN messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vanja121 Skype: vanja121 - Original Message - From: Stephen Clower [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:53 AM Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices! It's not posted anywhere yet, mainly because it's incomplete. If I get some time to finish it, I will. Though why someone would desire a synthetic copy of my voice is beyond me. Steve At 06:48 PM 8/16/2006, you wrote: ah yes I guess it could be! ah dear; an american Andre? an American Rachel? ah well; there goes that idea I suppose! Am currently searching for your voices Steve. If anyone else has theirs uploaded somewhere, let me know! Cheers! :) At 11:44 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: It could be your accent; the speech recognition engine only works with American English for now. I know Andre had to really accentuate his phonemes to get the software to accept them. By the way, if anyone cares, the archive where I play with my own model talker voice is from May 6, 2006. GO grab it if you want a larf. -- Steve At 07:02 AM 8/16/2006, you wrote: Hey steve, Patrick, anyone else (who's done this), I'm having problems unfortunately. I can't get past the first one do you understand what I'm saying? It's recording perfectly (as I hear it when I go into the file within the directory itself), but every time I try and record that sentence it says too low, too quiet and not clear. but it's stuck on the first one so am not sure what it's comparing it too or what's wrong with the recording. When I just try and hit the save button it just repeats that same audio prompt. *grrr Anyone know what could be going on? Cheers! At 09:4 5 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: The trick is that it's more tedious than anything else. Getting through roughly half of the phoneme recording takes about two hours, so you might want to grab some coffee to stay awake while recording yourself. Skype blows goat testacles, everybody. At 10:38 PM 8/15/2006, you wrote: wow, is it easy to do Patrick? I'm just waiting for my download key. and I've got a loud computer fan; oh no! At 01:32 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Been there, done it. If someone could please tell me how the hell to get the sapi5 bit to work, that'd be great. I've already created three instances of myself. Level calibrations are esential. Get rid of fan noise and/or room ambients -- it will haunt you later. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.1/421 - Release Date: 16/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.1/421 - Release Date: 16/08/2006
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
The trick is that it's more tedious than anything else. Getting through roughly half of the phoneme recording takes about two hours, so you might want to grab some coffee to stay awake while recording yourself. Skype blows goat testacles, everybody. At 10:38 PM 8/15/2006, you wrote: wow, is it easy to do Patrick? I'm just waiting for my download key. and I've got a loud computer fan; oh no! At 01:32 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Been there, done it. If someone could please tell me how the hell to get the sapi5 bit to work, that'd be great. I've already created three instances of myself. Level calibrations are esential. Get rid of fan noise and/or room ambients -- it will haunt you later. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
Hey steve, Patrick, anyone else (who's done this), I'm having problems unfortunately. I can't get past the first one do you understand what I'm saying? It's recording perfectly (as I hear it when I go into the file within the directory itself), but every time I try and record that sentence it says too low, too quiet and not clear. but it's stuck on the first one so am not sure what it's comparing it too or what's wrong with the recording. When I just try and hit the save button it just repeats that same audio prompt. *grrr Anyone know what could be going on? Cheers! At 09:4 5 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: The trick is that it's more tedious than anything else. Getting through roughly half of the phoneme recording takes about two hours, so you might want to grab some coffee to stay awake while recording yourself. Skype blows goat testacles, everybody. At 10:38 PM 8/15/2006, you wrote: wow, is it easy to do Patrick? I'm just waiting for my download key. and I've got a loud computer fan; oh no! At 01:32 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Been there, done it. If someone could please tell me how the hell to get the sapi5 bit to work, that'd be great. I've already created three instances of myself. Level calibrations are esential. Get rid of fan noise and/or room ambients -- it will haunt you later. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
oh OK cool thanks Derek. i just took a guess and figured why bother with the calebrate thing since it seemed we couldn't see it anyway. I didn't realize it worked from that originally too, thanks heaps! :) At 10:21 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Hit calibrate and then say things. It uses what to say to determine the natural pitch and range of your voice when speaking normally. For example, if beck screamed beck in a hat, in a really high voice and then tried to do the actual prompts in her standard voice, then it wouldn't work because it would think that she's too low. - Original Message - From: Rachel D Keyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:02 AM Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices! Hey steve, Patrick, anyone else (who's done this), I'm having problems unfortunately. I can't get past the first one do you understand what I'm saying? It's recording perfectly (as I hear it when I go into the file within the directory itself), but every time I try and record that sentence it says too low, too quiet and not clear. but it's stuck on the first one so am not sure what it's comparing it too or what's wrong with the recording. When I just try and hit the save button it just repeats that same audio prompt. *grrr Anyone know what could be going on? Cheers! At 09:4 5 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: The trick is that it's more tedious than anything else. Getting through roughly half of the phoneme recording takes about two hours, so you might want to grab some coffee to stay awake while recording yourself. Skype blows goat testacles, everybody. At 10:38 PM 8/15/2006, you wrote: wow, is it easy to do Patrick? I'm just waiting for my download key. and I've got a loud computer fan; oh no! At 01:32 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Been there, done it. If someone could please tell me how the hell to get the sapi5 bit to work, that'd be great. I've already created three instances of myself. Level calibrations are esential. Get rid of fan noise and/or room ambients -- it will haunt you later. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
It's not posted anywhere yet, mainly because it's incomplete. If I get some time to finish it, I will. Though why someone would desire a synthetic copy of my voice is beyond me. Steve At 06:48 PM 8/16/2006, you wrote: ah yes I guess it could be! ah dear; an american Andre? an American Rachel? ah well; there goes that idea I suppose! Am currently searching for your voices Steve. If anyone else has theirs uploaded somewhere, let me know! Cheers! :) At 11:44 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: It could be your accent; the speech recognition engine only works with American English for now. I know Andre had to really accentuate his phonemes to get the software to accept them. By the way, if anyone cares, the archive where I play with my own model talker voice is from May 6, 2006. GO grab it if you want a larf. -- Steve At 07:02 AM 8/16/2006, you wrote: Hey steve, Patrick, anyone else (who's done this), I'm having problems unfortunately. I can't get past the first one do you understand what I'm saying? It's recording perfectly (as I hear it when I go into the file within the directory itself), but every time I try and record that sentence it says too low, too quiet and not clear. but it's stuck on the first one so am not sure what it's comparing it too or what's wrong with the recording. When I just try and hit the save button it just repeats that same audio prompt. *grrr Anyone know what could be going on? Cheers! At 09:4 5 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: The trick is that it's more tedious than anything else. Getting through roughly half of the phoneme recording takes about two hours, so you might want to grab some coffee to stay awake while recording yourself. Skype blows goat testacles, everybody. At 10:38 PM 8/15/2006, you wrote: wow, is it easy to do Patrick? I'm just waiting for my download key. and I've got a loud computer fan; oh no! At 01:32 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Been there, done it. If someone could please tell me how the hell to get the sapi5 bit to work, that'd be great. I've already created three instances of myself. Level calibrations are esential. Get rid of fan noise and/or room ambients -- it will haunt you later. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
Lol just because I'm curious in how it all sounds put together since I probably won't be able to do it myself. I use to be OK at american accents but just can't do them any more! Lol Cheers! At 09:53 AM 17/08/2006, you wrote: It's not posted anywhere yet, mainly because it's incomplete. If I get some time to finish it, I will. Though why someone would desire a synthetic copy of my voice is beyond me. Steve At 06:48 PM 8/16/2006, you wrote: ah yes I guess it could be! ah dear; an american Andre? an American Rachel? ah well; there goes that idea I suppose! Am currently searching for your voices Steve. If anyone else has theirs uploaded somewhere, let me know! Cheers! :) At 11:44 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: It could be your accent; the speech recognition engine only works with American English for now. I know Andre had to really accentuate his phonemes to get the software to accept them. By the way, if anyone cares, the archive where I play with my own model talker voice is from May 6, 2006. GO grab it if you want a larf. -- Steve At 07:02 AM 8/16/2006, you wrote: Hey steve, Patrick, anyone else (who's done this), I'm having problems unfortunately. I can't get past the first one do you understand what I'm saying? It's recording perfectly (as I hear it when I go into the file within the directory itself), but every time I try and record that sentence it says too low, too quiet and not clear. but it's stuck on the first one so am not sure what it's comparing it too or what's wrong with the recording. When I just try and hit the save button it just repeats that same audio prompt. *grrr Anyone know what could be going on? Cheers! At 09:4 5 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: The trick is that it's more tedious than anything else. Getting through roughly half of the phoneme recording takes about two hours, so you might want to grab some coffee to stay awake while recording yourself. Skype blows goat testacles, everybody. At 10:38 PM 8/15/2006, you wrote: wow, is it easy to do Patrick? I'm just waiting for my download key. and I've got a loud computer fan; oh no! At 01:32 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Been there, done it. If someone could please tell me how the hell to get the sapi5 bit to work, that'd be great. I've already created three instances of myself. Level calibrations are esential. Get rid of fan noise and/or room ambients -- it will haunt you later. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.1/421 - Release Date: 16/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.1/421 - Release Date: 16/08/2006
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
Touche, Vanja, touche. At 07:32 PM 8/16/2006, you wrote: Well you never know steve, maybe Rachel finds your voice sexy, lol. I sure wouldn't mind certain people trying doing their own version, although I guess when synthetic thay don't exactly sound as sexy, still...when there's nothing else better available... Vanja http://www.sudar.co.uk MSN messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vanja121 Skype: vanja121 - Original Message - From: Stephen Clower [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:53 AM Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices! It's not posted anywhere yet, mainly because it's incomplete. If I get some time to finish it, I will. Though why someone would desire a synthetic copy of my voice is beyond me. Steve At 06:48 PM 8/16/2006, you wrote: ah yes I guess it could be! ah dear; an american Andre? an American Rachel? ah well; there goes that idea I suppose! Am currently searching for your voices Steve. If anyone else has theirs uploaded somewhere, let me know! Cheers! :) At 11:44 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: It could be your accent; the speech recognition engine only works with American English for now. I know Andre had to really accentuate his phonemes to get the software to accept them. By the way, if anyone cares, the archive where I play with my own model talker voice is from May 6, 2006. GO grab it if you want a larf. -- Steve At 07:02 AM 8/16/2006, you wrote: Hey steve, Patrick, anyone else (who's done this), I'm having problems unfortunately. I can't get past the first one do you understand what I'm saying? It's recording perfectly (as I hear it when I go into the file within the directory itself), but every time I try and record that sentence it says too low, too quiet and not clear. but it's stuck on the first one so am not sure what it's comparing it too or what's wrong with the recording. When I just try and hit the save button it just repeats that same audio prompt. *grrr Anyone know what could be going on? Cheers! At 09:4 5 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: The trick is that it's more tedious than anything else. Getting through roughly half of the phoneme recording takes about two hours, so you might want to grab some coffee to stay awake while recording yourself. Skype blows goat testacles, everybody. At 10:38 PM 8/15/2006, you wrote: wow, is it easy to do Patrick? I'm just waiting for my download key. and I've got a loud computer fan; oh no! At 01:32 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Been there, done it. If someone could please tell me how the hell to get the sapi5 bit to work, that'd be great. I've already created three instances of myself. Level calibrations are esential. Get rid of fan noise and/or room ambients -- it will haunt you later. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
Vanja, you're weird! Ditto! I wouldn't mind certain people doing that but as I say, this one was only out of curiosity of what the whole thing sounds like as a package. hmmm Vanja, are you gunna do one? hahaha! (kidding of course :) At 10:32 AM 17/08/2006, you wrote: Well you never know steve, maybe Rachel finds your voice sexy, lol. I sure wouldn't mind certain people trying doing their own version, although I guess when synthetic thay don't exactly sound as sexy, still...when there's nothing else better available... Vanja http://www.sudar.co.uk MSN messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vanja121 Skype: vanja121 - Original Message - From: Stephen Clower [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:53 AM Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices! It's not posted anywhere yet, mainly because it's incomplete. If I get some time to finish it, I will. Though why someone would desire a synthetic copy of my voice is beyond me. Steve At 06:48 PM 8/16/2006, you wrote: ah yes I guess it could be! ah dear; an american Andre? an American Rachel? ah well; there goes that idea I suppose! Am currently searching for your voices Steve. If anyone else has theirs uploaded somewhere, let me know! Cheers! :) At 11:44 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: It could be your accent; the speech recognition engine only works with American English for now. I know Andre had to really accentuate his phonemes to get the software to accept them. By the way, if anyone cares, the archive where I play with my own model talker voice is from May 6, 2006. GO grab it if you want a larf. -- Steve At 07:02 AM 8/16/2006, you wrote: Hey steve, Patrick, anyone else (who's done this), I'm having problems unfortunately. I can't get past the first one do you understand what I'm saying? It's recording perfectly (as I hear it when I go into the file within the directory itself), but every time I try and record that sentence it says too low, too quiet and not clear. but it's stuck on the first one so am not sure what it's comparing it too or what's wrong with the recording. When I just try and hit the save button it just repeats that same audio prompt. *grrr Anyone know what could be going on? Cheers! At 09:4 5 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: The trick is that it's more tedious than anything else. Getting through roughly half of the phoneme recording takes about two hours, so you might want to grab some coffee to stay awake while recording yourself. Skype blows goat testacles, everybody. At 10:38 PM 8/15/2006, you wrote: wow, is it easy to do Patrick? I'm just waiting for my download key. and I've got a loud computer fan; oh no! At 01:32 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Been there, done it. If someone could please tell me how the hell to get the sapi5 bit to work, that'd be great. I've already created three instances of myself. Level calibrations are esential. Get rid of fan noise and/or room ambients -- it will haunt you later. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.1/421 - Release Date: 16/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.1/421 - Release Date: 16/08/2006
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
Omg I'd love to do this. But someone else do it first? Because I just know I won't understand it. Lol. - Original Message - From: Rachel D Keyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:28 PM Subject: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices! Just thought I'd forward this on from someone who forwarded it from another list, (does that make sense? thought not! :) but this sounds so cool and I'm off to try make my own voice! :) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I just found a very interesting website and thought I'd pass it on as it can or since it's sapi5, this software, can be used with window-eyes and or jaws. Ok. I'll explain a little first. Suppose you wanted to add your own voice to the library or portfoleo of voices or voice fonts in the ATNT natural voices speech synthesizer. Well you'd have to pay thousands of dollars. But thanks to the website: http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/ModelTalker.html you can now do it, at least temporarily, for free! The speech synthesizer is called model talker. And you can create new voices with it by using your very own voice, a microphone, and your very own computer. There's good documentation with it that explains what to read and how to read it. If you spend the time. You can make a voice that sounds as good or better than the cepstral voices, or, you can create a voice that sounds as bad or a little worse than microsoft text to speech mary mike and sam voices. But with a little effort. Window-eyes and jaws, since this speech is sapi5 compatible. window-eyes and jaws can now talk in your own voice! or whose-ever voice you decide to record and turn into a voice font. Enjoy and have fun creating voices. I myself signed up to their mailing list and to be a beta tester of upcoming versions of the software. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006
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wow, is it easy to do Patrick? I'm just waiting for my download key. and I've got a loud computer fan; oh no! At 01:32 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Been there, done it. If someone could please tell me how the hell to get the sapi5 bit to work, that'd be great. I've already created three instances of myself. Level calibrations are esential. Get rid of fan noise and/or room ambients -- it will haunt you later. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
I should also add taht you shouldn't use very much inflection. Doing so will cause loads of really strange and very odd things to occur. So, if you think the guy who reads the scripts for the word list sounds boring, well, he probably is... but it's for a reason. I did try adding more inflection, and things got really blah really fast. On 8/15/2006, 11:45:30 PM EDT, Patrick wrote: On 8/15/2006, 11:38:47 PM EDT, Rachel wrote: is it easy to do Patrick? Well, it depends on a few things. First, you need to make sure it can actually understand you. Second, you need to get your levels set. There's a little calibration wizard you can run, and a meter on the bottom of the screen, if you are above or below a certain threshold it won't recognize what you say. Oh yeah, there's a little voice recognition engine that reads behind everything you say to make sure the phonemes relatively match up with what you're supposedly saying. For a full complement, you have to record 1,647 phrases. The state of the inv file can be saved and reloaded later, so you don't have to do it all at once. I've found that, for whatever reason, it sounds best if you get just a bit more than half way through, than it does if you do the entire phrase list. Don't ask me why. Please note, you get some really strange phrases close to the end, such as a dictionary apologized the toilet and many more that I can't remember. I think my darling potato was one of them. -- -- Patrick Perdue (MCP, CNA) KE4DYI Greensboro, NC website: http://www.pdaudio.net home: +1(828)221-2971 Mobile phone and SMS: +1(336)509-5583 e-mail and .net messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For anything related to the yamaha motif line of keyboards and modules, subscribe to the motif-help mailing list by sending a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message originally sent in reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 at 11:41 PM EST. -- -- Patrick Perdue (MCP, CNA) KE4DYI Greensboro, NC website: http://www.pdaudio.net home: +1(828)221-2971 Mobile phone and SMS: +1(336)509-5583 e-mail and .net messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For anything related to the yamaha motif line of keyboards and modules, subscribe to the motif-help mailing list by sending a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message originally sent in reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 at 11:48 PM EST.
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
Hi CaitCait, I'm about to download the softweare and am reading all the documentation. and yes it does sound pretty technical but at the same time, they do speak english! Lol! Hopefully Patrick will be the first to tell us if he's been successful with it! Lol Cheers! At 01:35 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Omg I'd love to do this. But someone else do it first? Because I just know I won't understand it. Lol. - Original Message - From: Rachel D Keyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:28 PM Subject: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices! Just thought I'd forward this on from someone who forwarded it from another list, (does that make sense? thought not! :) but this sounds so cool and I'm off to try make my own voice! :) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I just found a very interesting website and thought I'd pass it on as it can or since it's sapi5, this software, can be used with window-eyes and or jaws. Ok. I'll explain a little first. Suppose you wanted to add your own voice to the library or portfoleo of voices or voice fonts in the ATNT natural voices speech synthesizer. Well you'd have to pay thousands of dollars. But thanks to the website: http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/ModelTalker.html you can now do it, at least temporarily, for free! The speech synthesizer is called model talker. And you can create new voices with it by using your very own voice, a microphone, and your very own computer. There's good documentation with it that explains what to read and how to read it. If you spend the time. You can make a voice that sounds as good or better than the cepstral voices, or, you can create a voice that sounds as bad or a little worse than microsoft text to speech mary mike and sam voices. But with a little effort. Window-eyes and jaws, since this speech is sapi5 compatible. window-eyes and jaws can now talk in your own voice! or whose-ever voice you decide to record and turn into a voice font. Enjoy and have fun creating voices. I myself signed up to their mailing list and to be a beta tester of upcoming versions of the software. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
On 8/15/2006, 11:50:02 PM EDT, Rachel wrote: Hopefully Patrick will be the first to tell us if he's been successful with it! Lol I played with it about three months ago. It works with itself, but I never did get the sapi5 interface to do much of anything. Oh well... -- -- Patrick Perdue (MCP, CNA) KE4DYI Greensboro, NC website: http://www.pdaudio.net home: +1(828)221-2971 Mobile phone and SMS: +1(336)509-5583 e-mail and .net messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For anything related to the yamaha motif line of keyboards and modules, subscribe to the motif-help mailing list by sending a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message originally sent in reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 at 11:52 PM EST.
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
ah so, do ya mean, it only works in notepad and stuff (that it supports directly) but you can't select your voice from within Sappy5? *grr that's annoying at any rate). did you write to them about it? At 01:53 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: On 8/15/2006, 11:50:02 PM EDT, Rachel wrote: Hopefully Patrick will be the first to tell us if he's been successful with it! Lol I played with it about three months ago. It works with itself, but I never did get the sapi5 interface to do much of anything. Oh well... -- -- Patrick Perdue (MCP, CNA) KE4DYI Greensboro, NC website: http://www.pdaudio.net home: +1(828)221-2971 Mobile phone and SMS: +1(336)509-5583 e-mail and .net messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For anything related to the yamaha motif line of keyboards and modules, subscribe to the motif-help mailing list by sending a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message originally sent in reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 at 11:52 PM EST. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
Omg I want to try it sooo much. It'd be rad to hear myself reading things on the computer. Omgosh. - Original Message - From: Rachel D Keyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:50 PM Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices! Hi CaitCait, I'm about to download the softweare and am reading all the documentation. and yes it does sound pretty technical but at the same time, they do speak english! Lol! Hopefully Patrick will be the first to tell us if he's been successful with it! Lol Cheers! At 01:35 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Omg I'd love to do this. But someone else do it first? Because I just know I won't understand it. Lol. - Original Message - From: Rachel D Keyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:28 PM Subject: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices! Just thought I'd forward this on from someone who forwarded it from another list, (does that make sense? thought not! :) but this sounds so cool and I'm off to try make my own voice! :) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I just found a very interesting website and thought I'd pass it on as it can or since it's sapi5, this software, can be used with window-eyes and or jaws. Ok. I'll explain a little first. Suppose you wanted to add your own voice to the library or portfoleo of voices or voice fonts in the ATNT natural voices speech synthesizer. Well you'd have to pay thousands of dollars. But thanks to the website: http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/ModelTalker.html you can now do it, at least temporarily, for free! The speech synthesizer is called model talker. And you can create new voices with it by using your very own voice, a microphone, and your very own computer. There's good documentation with it that explains what to read and how to read it. If you spend the time. You can make a voice that sounds as good or better than the cepstral voices, or, you can create a voice that sounds as bad or a little worse than microsoft text to speech mary mike and sam voices. But with a little effort. Window-eyes and jaws, since this speech is sapi5 compatible. window-eyes and jaws can now talk in your own voice! or whose-ever voice you decide to record and turn into a voice font. Enjoy and have fun creating voices. I myself signed up to their mailing list and to be a beta tester of upcoming versions of the software. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006
Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices!
well try it out CaitCait. There's nothing stopping you. I have the progs downloaded and am currently reading the tutorial before I start my recordings. and it seems a lot easier than I originally thought. Only thing is, the Kelibration seems a bit visual. doesn't matter though as it's only really an indication. Patrick, did you find you had much trouble with it? Cheers! At 03:17 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Omg I want to try it sooo much. It'd be rad to hear myself reading things on the computer. Omgosh. - Original Message - From: Rachel D Keyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:50 PM Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices! Hi CaitCait, I'm about to download the softweare and am reading all the documentation. and yes it does sound pretty technical but at the same time, they do speak english! Lol! Hopefully Patrick will be the first to tell us if he's been successful with it! Lol Cheers! At 01:35 PM 16/08/2006, you wrote: Omg I'd love to do this. But someone else do it first? Because I just know I won't understand it. Lol. - Original Message - From: Rachel D Keyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:28 PM Subject: The Talk2 List Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: create your own natural voices! Just thought I'd forward this on from someone who forwarded it from another list, (does that make sense? thought not! :) but this sounds so cool and I'm off to try make my own voice! :) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I just found a very interesting website and thought I'd pass it on as it can or since it's sapi5, this software, can be used with window-eyes and or jaws. Ok. I'll explain a little first. Suppose you wanted to add your own voice to the library or portfoleo of voices or voice fonts in the ATNT natural voices speech synthesizer. Well you'd have to pay thousands of dollars. But thanks to the website: http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/ModelTalker.html you can now do it, at least temporarily, for free! The speech synthesizer is called model talker. And you can create new voices with it by using your very own voice, a microphone, and your very own computer. There's good documentation with it that explains what to read and how to read it. If you spend the time. You can make a voice that sounds as good or better than the cepstral voices, or, you can create a voice that sounds as bad or a little worse than microsoft text to speech mary mike and sam voices. But with a little effort. Window-eyes and jaws, since this speech is sapi5 compatible. window-eyes and jaws can now talk in your own voice! or whose-ever voice you decide to record and turn into a voice font. Enjoy and have fun creating voices. I myself signed up to their mailing list and to be a beta tester of upcoming versions of the software. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006
