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anybody know a good one that i can download? preferably for free. something simple, similar to the early ones (like the one produced for bbc computers) where you type in a word/sentence + the computer says it.. often with some hilarious mispronounciations. im quite keen on the whole stephen-hawking style voice too - nothing too slick/realistic. any suggestions? |
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if you have a Mac, you've already got speach synth built into the OS ;) |
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good ol' simpletext! |
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this one, you don't even need to download. It's an online demo. When you have written what's suppose to be said (maximum 100 characters =/) you get it in a .wav-file (maximum 22 khz)... It's good though, and it's not hard to create (longer) pieces with it, just chop it up in sentences and then put them together in a .wav-editor. |
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i found one online that had voices with different accents (mexican,german,american,french) search for text2speech |
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oscillik | no mac im afraid. pity.. q4z2x | details please? |
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in Mac OS X, you can use speach synth on any selectable text in the system very handy feature |
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that program (even the demo) has the following languages... Belgian Dutch Brazilian Portuguese Canadian French Cantonese Chinese Castilian Spanish Danish Dutch European Portuguese French German Italian Japanese Korean Mandarin Chinese Mexican Spanish Norwegian Polish Russian Swedish UK English US English ... and it sounds good! Even the swedish one makes good pronounciations. |
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my mate has one, its a port of one that was on the Amiga from years ago, i just cant remember what its called :( its really retro sounding too, because the code hasn't been changed for it - its simply been ported to windows from amiga if i can find out from my mate, i'll let you know :) |
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oh and its freeware too as far as i know |
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thanks for your suggestions. i'm looking into them at the moment. others are welcome. |
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oscilik | if you could find out about that one - id be very grateful. |
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my mate fishbone has it, hold on, i'll see if he's still awake *calls him* |
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damn he must be asleep - not answering his mobile i'll ask him as soon as i can, problem is that'll most likely be tomorrow sometime you still want me to find out for you? |
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yes please |
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okies, no problem i'll just keep trying to get in touch with him he was on yahoo im before, so i'm guessing he might be on tomorrow, or i'll just call him and ask :) |
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thanks |
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theres a pretty interesting one at , its freeware and has a bunch of shit you can tweak. personally, i think the whole site is a nice hidden little gem full of tiny useful utilities |
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that's the one!!!!!!!! |
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what he said... Some nice little tools on that site. I've made use of his frequency converter quite a bit. |
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awesome, ive been looking for something like this for a while! thansk hed! |
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Cool speech is good. |
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theres a speech synth built into windows too. its in accesories > accesabilty. |
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Search google for "Shit Talker". Best thing ever, |
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(not crappy, requires some effort) (the people who originally made it fell off the edge of the Internet, so I put it on my site) AnalogX SayIt has already been linked... is another web thing from AT&T's research people. |
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if you have windows you should have it too |
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yeah but 1) Only Windows 2000 / Windows XP has it, Mac have had it for well over 10 years 2) As far as I know, you can't get it to speech synth ANY selected text, you can only get it to speak alert boxes and error boxes and stuff i might be wrong on that last bit - haven't booted up XP or 2000 on Virtual PC for a while |
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shit talker is increasingly entertaining. i love the sicko noise! |
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thanks again folks. all your help/suggestions are greatly appreciated. |
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