text to speech that sounds like "speak & spell"

[morax]

Dear kvr users

I'm looking for a text to speech program that sounds like "speak n spell"
here is the link for the texas instrumets speak n spell simulator
http://www.speaknspell.co.uk/speaknspell.html

Unfortunately there is no option to add words to the vocabulary of this proggy,
and all the other text to speech programs I tried sounds very different ..

maybe someone of you guys knows a text to speech synthesizer that sounds like this ?

Thanks

[Mac of BIOnighT]

Say-it? Don't know if it's still available somewhere, though...

[morax]

Say-it? Don't know if it's still available somewhere, though...

If it's this freebie by Analog-X (link) it's not the sound i'm looking for ...
http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... eeware.htm

[Mac of BIOnighT]

Never had a speak and spell (Italian is a phonetic language), so I wouldn't know... sorry, it was my only copyright-free idea...

[morax]

hi Mac, it's ok mate thanks for your reply !
it's just that in this case I'm looking for something specific ..

[Goseba]

Atari speech run under Steem on pc (unless you still have an Atari). I was playing with it a couple of days ago.

[breakmixer]

Dear kvr users

I'm looking for a text to speech program that sounds like "speak n spell"
here is the link for the texas instrumets speak n spell simulator
http://www.speaknspell.co.uk/speaknspell.html

Unfortunately there is no option to add words to the vocabulary of this proggy,
and all the other text to speech programs I tried sounds very different ..

maybe someone of you guys knows a text to speech synthesizer that sounds like this ?

Thanks

You could try a kids toy bit of hardware called 'Speak & Spell', I think it's the sound you are after

[Goseba]

Dear kvr users

I'm looking for a text to speech program that sounds like "speak n spell"
here is the link for the texas instrumets speak n spell simulator
http://www.speaknspell.co.uk/speaknspell.html

Unfortunately there is no option to add words to the vocabulary of this proggy,
and all the other text to speech programs I tried sounds very different ..

maybe someone of you guys knows a text to speech synthesizer that sounds like this ?

Thanks

You could try a kids toy bit of hardware called 'Speak & Spell', I think it's the sound you are after

But it still won't let you input your own words which the OP wants to do (well my version doesn't anyway).

[Mac of BIOnighT]

it still won't let you input your own words

My mother didn't, either...

[splatsquatch]

very productive thread guys

[vurt]

well worth digging up...

[Guenon]

The Speak & Spell is a fun device which, however, isn't actual text-to-speech: each word was pre-recorded and extensively data compressed/truncated, and it cannot reproduce any words (based on input text and some general speech synthesis rules) that it doesn't already contain built-in. This is also the reason why actual text-to-speech solutions sound so different. For you to get the most authentic Speak & Spell -like voice, you need something that can use similar techniques in modifying a person's voice to resemble the sound reproduction process of the device.

The best I've come across is Bitspeek by Sonic Charge, which uses a similar linear prediction algorithm, in real time, with different quality settings etc. available: https://soniccharge.com/bitspeek

[Aloysius]

Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:01 am?

Wavosaur - VSTSpeek

[Guenon]

Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:01 am?

Argh!

Wavosaur - VSTSpeek

That one is cool also, although it's a somewhat different thing as described above.

[inkwarp]

FL Studio has a speech plugin...