Text 2 Speech

[nool]

Thought i'd slap this on here too
some text 2 speech links (mostly free)

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/sayit.htm
http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html
windows xp has that kind of application - control panel -> speech
http://www.xoxos.net/vsti.html
http://www.zophar.net/Files/usass1.3b.zip (cut and paste the url)
http://www.nextup.com/ (commercial)
http://www.highcriteria.com/ (commercial)
http://www.1337haxorz.de/products.html#v2
http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/say/
http://www.rhetorical.com/cgi-bin/demo.cgi
http://www.research.ibm.com/tts/coredemo.shtml
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[flat]

Some time ago I had fun with this one:

http://www.phi11ip.com/downloads/Talkany.zip

the spanish pronounce is a must try...

[Lee_dC]

which ones are VST and which are standalone progs, or other formats, etc.? would be a handy addition to the info!

[nool]

more from KVR

http://www.oddcast.com/sitepal/
http://readplease.com/
http://www.scansoft.com/realspeak/solo/
http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/virtualsinger.htm (commercial)
http://www.alivemedia.net/textspeech.htm (commercial)
and of course vocaloid (commercial)
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[Xenobioz]

http://home.hccnet.nl/e.ley/speech.html
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/hebrew/personal/tts/table.html
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Speech_Technology/Speech_Synthesis/

Text to speech is great, I used to use for female speech. Its cool because you can make your own cool speech samples to insert in a song and dont have to be afraid of copyrights.

There are some really good ones like rethorical. Before there was also flex but they dont offer any demo anymore.
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[wayfinder]

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[Disasteradio]

RectalAnarchy / fruityloops TTS > *

.. though I haven't tried vocaloid yet. amazing that fruity is actually GOOD for something.
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[D Tox]

mh...I've heared that there are some text 2 speech plugins with the voice of famous ppls like george bush...does any of u have some?!
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[Noz]

[peacemaker]

The Fruityloop TTS engine is _exactly_ the same as the standalone program DocTalk (even parameter/preset names).

[mute]

theres a really old one called 'shittalker', its still mildly entertaining.

[peacemaker]

I tried ShitTalker too, it's just a different interface for my old friend DocTalk (it comes bundled with the DocTalk files(!)) And I just tried out Talkany, sounds exaclty like DocTalk/FruityLoops TTS too (apart from the spanish voice!), but comes without DocTalk files. I wonder which is the original, resp. who wrote it and who has the copyright (and the source)?

[Mirfus]

festival
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

[synthphase]

what about the old Sound Blaster one with the parrot? What was that called? Parrot? I remember a dos one where there was a doctor talking to you or something.

[peacemaker]

ahh, and not to forget the old "Say" that was shipped with the OS of the good ol' Commodore Amiga... Those were the days I remember trying to make it speak german (e.g. typing "o 9!" for "oh nein!"(oh no!))
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[peacemaker]

Seen this?: http://www.virsyn.de/en/E_Products/E_CANTOR/e_cantor.html It's brand new... it's a _singing_ speech synth VSTi! ...And again, the voice sounds like good ol' DocTalk, which can sing too, but chooses the melody itself.
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[kibibu]

We used to have SAM for AppleII - required an add-in card, but was pretty sexy. Might be able to find an emulated version.

Also, can you still get Dr. Sbaitso?
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[Mirfus]

You want one of these little badboys:

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