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Text to speech vst?

Ok, so I'm making this track, but I need text to speech voices too it.The voices like Benni Benassi are using. Do you know what he uses to get these voices? It sounds like Microsoft Marry, but I don't have the TTS voice (I'll get it). And he is able to control them how he wants them to be, like pitching. I know that there is a feature for this in Fruity Loops, but it doesn't have those TTS voices I want.

Just go to Bell Labs' text-to-speech thing, export the clip, then warp it in your sequencer so that it's in tempo. Then, use Melodyne to pitch-shift it.

Try "Sayit" from Analogx
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio.htm

Phasio used it in "C.P.C.O".

I was wondering what speech synthesis program Benny used. The pitch change was probably accomplished seperately, through some sort of software processing. I heard somewhere that Benny used Mac PCs for the synthetic speech. I'm starting to wonder if those are real voices with heavy effects processing. I think it could be done that way.

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Originally posted by zodiac9 I was wondering what speech synthesis program Benny used. The pitch change was probably accomplished seperately, through some sort of software processing. I heard somewhere that Benny used Mac PCs for the synthetic speech. I'm starting to wonder if those are real voices with heavy effects processing. I think it could be done that way.

It is the mac speech synthesis benny used.

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Originally posted by Speactra Try "Sayit" from Analogx http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio.htm Phasio used it in "C.P.C.O".

Thanks, I might use it for someone else, but It's really hard to understand what he's saying.

Hitsquad has some interesting programs listed here:
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/win95/TEXT_TO_VOCALS/

AT&T were the best on that a long time ago...until they restricted their serveice online.

imo the best t2s software is scansoft realspeak, but I think their voices are too real for these purposes

you could check out their site if you want for an interactive demo (you can type in the sentences and it will give you a .wav file)

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Originally posted by tonkproject AT&T were the best on that a long time ago...until they restricted their serveice online.

Isn't this it?

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

Edit: Nevermind, I see that you are not supposed to use it in songs, that is what you meant by restricted.

the bell south one can do different accents and stuff.

if your really ballsy you could try making your own lookup tables, that song "daisy daisy" from 2001: a space oddesy had a singing computer voice made that way, could only imagine hoe much work that would have taken writing those huge lookup tables with such a slow antique machine.

there are tunes from the 70's by this dude charles dodge who did the speech thing at bell labs during the night when all the workers were not using the stuff, they are kinda funny. Then there is that mac speech thingy, and the open source one called festival.

Text to speech thingys are fun.

I read/heard somewhere that the vocals from Satisfaction were real vocals recorded from a phone conversation. Don't know if it's true though.

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Originally posted by farris I read/heard somewhere that the vocals from Satisfaction were real vocals recorded from a phone conversation. Don't know if it's true though.

no way! i find that hard to believe

I'm pretty sure that it is mac speech, i've heard some samples from a mac "talking", and it's the exact same voice.

You know what's odd, a few days after this was posted, I saw a commercial on TV that used the exact same speech synth as satisfaction. It wasn't the Wendy's commercial either. It was some financial company or something, had that same sythetic voice saying financial/business terms. The pitch change in the voice was built-in to it, you could tell, to make the speech sound natural. Sounded very much like how the pitch changes on the satisfaction voices. They had to of used a Mac then.

I'm reading the thread as you post something new. I asume mac got the voice? And you have to "rex it" with recycle to sync it, and pitch each word. Am I right?

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Originally posted by Thois no way! i find that hard to believe

Hehe, man....I kid. Obviously some computer voice thingie.

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Originally posted by farris Hehe, man....I kid. Obviously some computer voice thingie.

oh man im stupid!

you can always use the windows one, goto start -> accessories -> accesesibility -> narrator.

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