Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Retro speech synthesis
From: Juan Linietsky (coding_AT_reduz.com.ar)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 20:19:44 EET
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
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