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Hubris Incalculable

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Non-human speech synthesis
« on: May 26, 2011, 05:21:33 pm »
A while ago, while playing with Festival, an open-source TTS, I had the idea of using non human sounds (mechanical, animal, natural) to emulate human speech patterns, for example, using clock-noises as t's and k's, and air escaping from a leak for s's and sh's, and other things like that. however, i only got about that far, and couldn't think of any other sounds that could be used. anyone have any ideas?
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Duelmaster409

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Re: Non-human speech synthesis
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2011, 06:36:11 pm »
Using sounds as substitute for human voice would probably generate some horrific sci-fi voice. Or it would just sound absolutely silly.



It would be cool if it sounded scary.
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Jerick

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Re: Non-human speech synthesis
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2011, 09:15:20 am »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4
You might find this intresting then
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Re: Non-human speech synthesis
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2011, 01:20:30 pm »
Quote from: Jerick on May 31, 2011, 09:15:20 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4
You might find this intresting then

Holy hell.  Did they think that was cute?  That was, by far, the most demonic piano I've ever heard.
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Re: Non-human speech synthesis
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2011, 01:02:18 am »
Heh, I wrote my thesis on speech transformation, so I'm quite interested in whatever people want to do on the topic :P

At its base, it shouldn't really be that hard at all, just pick up lots of sounds, and match them so that they meet some kind of phonetic.
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