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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:38 pm reply with quote
V2 is very strange. You have to send it MIDID program changes if you want to change patches on it. Also, you have to address each instrument on a different MIDI channel. IIRC the speech synthesizer is permanently assigned to 16 or something silly like that. Hope this gives you a direction for experimenting. It's been a while since I played with it.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:21 am reply with quote
wee_gerri wrote:
OK, I've just had a play with Syng2 by Xoxos and it's perfect.
Exactly what I'm looking for! Very Happy


well, there's an opinion you never seem to see in these "recommend me a free voice synth" threads Smile glad it's meeting your requirements.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 10:18 am reply with quote
That one is pretty cool but just a cartridge for the c-64

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRCeTBv2xB4&feature=related
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 10:42 am reply with quote
tehlord wrote:
Not quite what you're asking for, but maybe better

http://soniccharge.com/bitspeek


Thank you, this made my day.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 11:13 am reply with quote
Wish Syng2 was Mac OS too. Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:03 am reply with quote
easyspeak and easyspeakedit are pretty good, with lots of
voice models and a phrasing editor, if you can suss it out.
can be quite funny if you make it speak english with another
language model. NOT VST, though.

there is one mentioned on an old forum called codelab (french, 2006-ish)
but no working links for anything there. it may have been pluggo, if anyone
out tere collects pluggos.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:42 am reply with quote
there was prodyon robocoder .
was really good, but sampled based though.
contacted the developer and he said it would return as a new improved plugin.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:21 am reply with quote
olikana wrote:
there was prodyon robocoder .
was really good, but sampled based though.
contacted the developer and he said it would return as a new improved plugin.


The developer in question is not dependable for more reasons than the one I'm going to explain.

One of his plugins was reviewed in Computer Music Magazine years ago and had a couple problems and needed a few improvements. The magazine said "he promised to add the missing features and fix the problems"... It never happened.

So I'm just saying, I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. In all likelihood, there will never be a new and improved plugin of robocoder.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:22 pm reply with quote
sonic charge permut8 can do text to speech, it's doing the speech at the start of this video, and you can change the sound of the speech quite a lot


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6xSG378Hho&feature=share&lis t=PLB24A2AD6F79A4220
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:43 pm reply with quote
Shy wrote:
I know what kind of sound you're looking for. You want the Atari 520ST speech synthesizer (known as ST speech) sound, which has been used in many techno tracks, some are well known (like Das Boot).

Here is an example.

Forget about a VST for that kind of sound, with sync and whatever, there is nothing. If you want to use it anyway, you need the Atari ST emulator Steem (also download the UK TOS, on top) and stspeech. Configure Steem (and choose TOS v1.02), then in Options -> Sound, change Output type to Direct and choose 16-bit (I'd keep 50066Hz and resample in a wave editor later). Run the OS ("Play" button), run stspeech.tos from the disk you configured. Record by pressing the button in the sound options menu. Alt+Tab releases the mouse cursor from the Steem window.

The thing is, there are important features like changing pitch, obviously, and stress amount, but I can't remember the commands to do that in STspeech, so if anyone knows or has some manual, share it. Some phonetic tips here.


ST speech was ported to windows and the file name is STSpeech.exe I lost it though and can't be bothered to hunt it down on the web. Its an authentic port but its command line program it doesn't sound as grungy.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:32 pm reply with quote
emef wrote:
sonic charge permut8 can do text to speech, it's doing the speech at the start of this video, and you can change the sound of the speech quite a lot


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6xSG378Hho&feature=share&lis t=PLB24A2AD6F79A4220

+1

Permut8 contains, as an Easter egg, SAM... The classic speech synthesizer from the Apple ][ and C64.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:04 pm reply with quote
IrionDaRonin wrote:
There is, and i always suggest it, a VSTi called Aquestone with makes female japanesse sounds, and if you use correctly, you can makes nice vocal track effects. Have fun with it, although i don't know if you still can download from the page.

I use it sometimes.

I will take a look on the Bitspeek, thanks.

Have a good day and good luck Smile


How do i change the lyrics?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:24 pm reply with quote
wee_gerri wrote:
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Are you 100% sure you don't want a vocoder ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdaWuzRRRF8

There are some freeware ones that would do the trick.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:51 pm reply with quote
If you have a mac, there's some cool speech voices built in you can choose from. AIR even used a stock voice for their song, "Do The Joy". You can check that on youtube, and how to do it yourself here:

http://www.airfrenchband.org/talkie/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1596
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