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Re: [microsound] macintalk



I don't know macintalk, so I don't really know what you're looking for, but
MBROLA is quite a nice speech synthesizer. This is from the
website(http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html):

Central to the MBROLA project is MBROLA, a speech synthesizer based on the
concatenation of diphones. It takes a list of phonemes as input, together
with prosodic information (duration of phonemes and a piecewise linear
description of pitch), and produces speech samples on 16 bits (linear), at
the sampling frequency of the diphone database used (it is therefore NOT a
Text-To-Speech (TTS)synthesizer, since it does not accept raw text as
input). This synthesizer is provided for free, for non commercial, non
military applications only.

Not being a TTS-synthesizer it's problaby a bit more difficult in use, but
you can get very good results with it.

mik

----- Original Message -----
From: Ross <amnesia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 8:36 AM
Subject: [microsound] macintalk


Hello miscrosounders

I know we have covered this a few weeks back, but is there a pc version,i.e.
same sounding voices for PC..

I nearly felt like buying a Mac today, but Id have to rebuy all the lovely
proggies I have on PC.



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