Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Retro speech synthesis
From: David Olofson (david_AT_olofson.net)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 21:21:55 EET
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?
> 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.. :-)
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?
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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