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wabe <wabenbau@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > I am looking for a (not neccessarily GENTOO) software, whith which |
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> > it is possible to synthesize the human voice (male / female). |
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> > It does not neccessarily need to be a TTS (I tried some) -- but the |
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> > voice needs easily to be tuned in the sense of pitch and sound. |
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> > Suppose you want a synthetic voice of Frodo talking some Tengwar |
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> > (and dont want to mimic the movies actors ;) or the northern slang |
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> > of some Elbish ... ;) |
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> > Another example would be vocaloid (commercial product). |
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> > Is there some software of this kind somewhere for Linux? |
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> > Thanks a lot for any voice coming up for this ! :))) |
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> It's some years ago that I use speech synthesizers and I can't |
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> remember all details. |
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> First I use mbrola for some years. Unfortunately it is not an open |
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> source program but it is available for gentoo. For some reason |
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> (that I don't remember, maybe because it's not open source or |
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> maybe because there is no 64bit binary) I switched over to espeak. |
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> Later I also used festival. But I still used the mbrola voices |
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> together with espeak and also with festival because they have a |
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> very good quality (I downloaded some high quality mbrola voices |
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> from the mbrola homepage). |
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P.S.: It is possible to tune some parameters for mbrola so that |
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you can let it even sing a song. I can't remember if this is also |
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possible with espeak or festival. |
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Regards |
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wabe |
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