KVR Audio

homewrecker · Post by **homewrecker** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:21 pm

hello,

does anyone know a good way to create the "text to speech" robot voice? i'm looking for the "stephen hawking" low tone robot voice.

there is a similar voice on mac speech (called bad news) but the voice is melodic; i'd prefer a constant tone.

any vst plugs? programs?

there are a lot of text to speech programs out there, but most of them sound very kind of sub-par. just trying to find the best way to do it.

thanks,
tom

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:22 pm

http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html

scamme · Post by **scamme** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:32 pm

farbrausch v2 have a build-in text to speech.

Ja.x · Post by **Ja.x** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:36 pm

http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... /sayit.htm

j3r3my · Post by **j3r3my** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:18 pm

you could download the fruityloops demo, use the speech synth, and then export the wave file to whatever program you want.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:22 pm

RattleStiX wrote:you could download the fruityloops demo, use the speech synth, and then export the wave file to whatever program you want.

or you could drop a c-note and a half and get a nice program too...

barbakane · Post by **barbakane** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:34 pm

Try Shittalker. This is the exact same voice as heard in Pink Floyd's "Keep Talking".
http://unaesthetic.net/st/dl.htm

You can choose male/female, young/old. Even the speed at which the voice plays. There's a great randomizer in it as well.

I've used this for a while now and it suits my needs just fine. I don't need a super sophisticated program.

Hope this helps.

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:29 pm

Kriminal wrote:http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html

late at night my friends and I write horribly vulgar personalized insults with that and send them to eachotehr via the "Display link for audio file" option. It's awesome!

Modeler · Post by **Modeler** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:43 pm

RattleStiX wrote:you could download the fruityloops demo, use the speech synth, and then export the wave file to whatever program you want.

This has a preset called Colossus which is Cylon-tastic! All your base are belong to us!!!

CC4 · Post by **CC4** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:19 pm

barbakane wrote:Try Shittalker. This is the exact same voice as heard in Pink Floyd's "Keep Talking".
http://unaesthetic.net/st/dl.htm

just when you think you have everything... thanks for that link.

Here are some others:
http://www.rohitab.com/freevoice/#Snapshots
http://www.readplease.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/downloads/user.asp#tts
http://www.bytecool.com/
http://www.zero2000.com/
http://www.guangmingsoft.net/
http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... /sayit.htm
http://www.text-to-speech.net/
http://proletsoft.freeservers.com/mmb/gominimal.html
http://www.research-lab.com/newapp.htm
http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/index.html
http://www.bytecool.com/textsnd.htm
http://www.ultimatereadingmachine.com/
http://www.yayahoohoo.com/
http://www.zapptek.com/ispeak-it/
http://www.myriad-online.com/en/product ... singer.htm

homewrecker · Post by **homewrecker** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:55 am

thanks for the help everyone. now i definitely have some options!

tommy

Steven West · Post by **Steven West** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:55 am

If you got a PC, just use the 'Accesibilty Voice' for the visually impaired. I did a whole prensentation using NotePad and phonetically spelling words out just so (Stynburg, Yaw Ma Haw, etc) that would've impressed the hell out of Florian Schneider atleast.

Or ask to borrow vurts Speak and Spell?

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:04 pm

There's a recent upload in the Reaktor library (Babble On) that can do robot singing as well - works by sequencing phonemes in patterns, then sequencing patterns into songs.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:23 pm

so they finally caught up

mckenic · Post by **mckenic** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:26 pm

xoxos wrote:so they finally caught up

text to speech robot voice