KVR Audio

pocvecem · Post by **pocvecem** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:59 pm

I'm looking for a speech synthesis program that runs on Win7/64. It shouldn't sound natural as i want to feed a vocoder with some words - good ol Kraftwerk style.
Even better when the program has a rather neutral or even robotic pronounciation. Most progs i've found so far sound english.
Tried my own voice, but i cannot hide my origin. It always sounds like "bavarian" english.

Thanks for your ideas,
Gerald

UltraJv · Post by **UltraJv** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:04 pm

Try sayit :

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio.htm

pocvecem · Post by **pocvecem** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:16 pm

UltraJv wrote:Try sayit :

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio.htm

Thanks,
sayit comes rather close to what i'm looking for. It just doesn't sound very understandable through TAL Vocoder which works fine with other input sources.

ew · Post by ew » Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:49 pm

CANTOR

ew

Jason Washburn · Post by **Jason Washburn** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:01 pm

http://www.neospeech.com/

http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.htm

audington · Post by **audington** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:16 pm

Get WinUAE (Amiga Emulator) and set it up, run Workbench, and run the 'Say' program - most awesome retro speech synth ever

z_old_account · Post by **z_old_account** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:36 pm

You could give ElectraX a try. There is a 'quick import vocoder button'. Here you can select a wav file and create a vocoder patch from it with only two mouseclicks.

http://www.tone2.com/html/electrax_synt ... st_au.html

Warmverb does also come with a easy to use vocoder:

http://www.tone2.com/html/warmverb_vst_ ... nthes.html

pocvecem · Post by **pocvecem** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:10 pm

ew wrote:CANTOR

ew

Yepp, Cantor would do the trick. But 300€ just for me having a little fun with a vocoder is a bit too much. I don't want to replace a singer. Thanks anyway.

Jason Washburn wrote:http://www.neospeech.com/

http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.htm

The AT&T has exactly that 'mechanical' reading style i'm looking for. You are just not allowed to use the samples.

audington wrote:Get WinUAE (Amiga Emulator) and set it up, run Workbench, and run the 'Say' program - most awesome retro speech synth ever

Oh yes! Must call my pal. He still owns several Amigas.

Btw, is the speech synth in Fruity Loops still there? Must download the demo. I remember it wasn't too bad at all.

Some nice suggestions. Thank you all.

badpioneer · Post by **badpioneer** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:09 pm

I'm not 100% certain but I'd imagine feeding the AT&T sounds through a vocoder would make it distinct enough to no longer be a violation of their terms.

Speech synthesis for Windows7/64 ?