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[klingon13524]

Hello guys and girl! I want to tell you abou-

JK, this isn't a spambot speaking.

Does anyone know of a free, easy to use text to speech (or speech to speech) voice synthesis/modification program? I know about the huge number of ones your thinking about, but I need it to sound robotic. Not Micro$oft SAM or answering machine robotic, but rather stereotypical android robotic. Think 3-CPO, battle droid, Enterprise computer, Robocop, or HAL type voice. Bonus points if you answer before I go to sleep!

[Sean Mirrsen]

A quick Google turned up ScriptVOX Studio. Shareware, with a free trial of unknown limitations. Very nifty, actually. Can read passages of text in different voices. Has a tunable robot voice effect, among others.

http://www.screamingbee.com/product/ScriptVOXStudio.aspx

edit: It's a 20-day trial, and it wants to connect to the server every time you launch it (but only when in trial mode). The cost I would consider preposterous ($35? The total value of all my Steam games is less than half that!), but maybe it's just me.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

You could probably record the voice and then tweak it with Audacity, there's filters specifically for robotic speech in it AFAIK

[Thief^]

At least C3PO and HAL from your list just had normal human voices, no distortion at all.

[klingon13524]

At least C3PO and HAL from your list just had normal human voices, no distortion at all.

They had distortion. Not as obvious, but then were still modified to be robotic.

You could probably record the voice and then tweak it with Audacity, there's filters specifically for robotic speech in it AFAIK

Audacity?

A quick Google turned up ScriptVOX Studio. Shareware, with a free trial of unknown limitations. Very nifty, actually. Can read passages of text in different voices. Has a tunable robot voice effect, among others.

http://www.screamingbee.com/product/ScriptVOXStudio.aspx

edit: It's a 20-day trial, and it wants to connect to the server every time you launch it (but only when in trial mode). The cost I would consider preposterous ($35? The total value of all my Steam games is less than half that!), but maybe it's just me.

35 dollars? Might as well check out the trial. Not what I was looking for, from the product description.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Audacity
It's free sound editing software, and actually pretty damn good software at that.

[Sean Mirrsen]

At least C3PO and HAL from your list just had normal human voices, no distortion at all.

They had distortion. Not as obvious, but then were still modified to be robotic.

You could probably record the voice and then tweak it with Audacity, there's filters specifically for robotic speech in it AFAIK

Audacity?

A quick Google turned up ScriptVOX Studio. Shareware, with a free trial of unknown limitations. Very nifty, actually. Can read passages of text in different voices. Has a tunable robot voice effect, among others.

http://www.screamingbee.com/product/ScriptVOXStudio.aspx

edit: It's a 20-day trial, and it wants to connect to the server every time you launch it (but only when in trial mode). The cost I would consider preposterous ($35? The total value of all my Steam games is less than half that!), but maybe it's just me.

35 dollars? Might as well check out the trial. Not what I was looking for, from the product description.

You were looking for a text-to-speech program that can do a robot voice. This one can.