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Posted by Imu on Mar-13-2009 07:12:

text to sound? HELP!

does anyone know how armin makes the intro/narrator voice on his ASOT episodes? i want to do something similar in a mix but i'm not sure what software would be best. most text-to-speech things i have seen have a very limited selection of voices. any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Posted by Acton on Mar-13-2009 12:25:

Microsoft Sam for the win!

Why don't you just record your own and play with it in a DAW using various effects until you get your desired sound.

Posted by Imu on Mar-13-2009 18:42:

quote:
Originally posted by Acton
Microsoft Sam for the win!

Why don't you just record your own and play with it in a DAW using various effects until you get your desired sound.

which DAW would you recommend?

Posted by jupiterone on Mar-13-2009 19:20:

there are tens of hundreds of sites on the internet that let you type something into a box and it will speak it out in whatever kind of accent/voice you want and save to .wav

google

Posted by Tony Morello on Mar-13-2009 21:12:

it's not text to speech on ASOT, radio stations actually have voice over people that do those things

Posted by jpgrdnr on Mar-13-2009 21:40:

^^ hehe - who knew?

Posted by jupiterone on Mar-13-2009 22:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Tony Morello
it's not text to speech on ASOT, radio stations actually have voice over people that do those things

ya and this.

don't expect to find the voice of morgan freeman on the internet ready to provide you with a wonderful radio show introduction

Posted by Tony Morello on Mar-13-2009 22:32:

quote:
Originally posted by jpgrdnr
^^ hehe - who knew?

i did, it's my job to make those wonderful radio station promo stuff, complete with voice overs and cool sound effects

Posted by jpgrdnr on Mar-13-2009 22:43:

I just thought it was common knowledge that there were people that got paid just to do promo voice work. Apparently not.

Posted by AnomalyConcept on Mar-14-2009 03:47:

What about the new iPod shuffle? =P

Posted by i got big pants on Mar-14-2009 07:47:

and this whole time i thought the guy who did voice overs for movie previews was just a computer somewhere....

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Mar-14-2009 08:05:

quote:
Originally posted by i got big pants
and this whole time i thought the guy who did voice overs for movie previews was just a computer somewhere....

My dreams are crushed. Crushed!

Posted by Imu on Mar-14-2009 09:04:

lol so i figured out you can do a lot with just garageband! pretty awesome for my purposes...but thanks anyway!

also wow i actually didn't know the ASOT thing was an actual voice!