Re: [linux-audio-dev] virtual vocalist - I think we could have something similar without much work...

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] virtual vocalist - I think we could have something similar without much work...
From: by way of Juan Linietsky (Juan)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 23:38:40 EET


On Sunday 23 November 2003 09:07, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> At 08:56 PM 24/11/2003, Juan Linietsky wrote:
> >On Thursday 20 November 2003 01:09, Paul Davis wrote:
> > > http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2003/Vocaloid.html
> >
> >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?

Juan Linietsky


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