Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Retro speech synthesis
From: Frank Neumann (Frank.Neumann_AT_st.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 20:42:30 EET
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
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