Re: [SLUG] Voice developement

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 18:05:31 EDT


Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:52:00AM -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > On the other side, speech synthesis, nothing beats Festival:
> >
> > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
> >
>
> Anyone remember the voice of Colossus (from "Colossus, The Forbin
> Project")? I'd like to have a computer that could do something really
> metallic and inhuman like that. You suppose anything does that?

Check out:

http://www.festvox.org/

One of the neater things about Festival is that it uses a
custom-generated phoneme database; you can build your own voice files so
it sounds (sort of anyway) like anyone you choose.

You can make your own Colossus if you have a large enough sample size.
:)

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usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \ | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -

http://www.eff.org/ http://www.opendvd.org/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/



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