POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Still Alive, Vocaloid ver. : Re: Still Alive, Vocaloid ver. Server Time
4 Sep 2024 11:17:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Still Alive, Vocaloid ver.  
From: Warp
Date: 7 Feb 2010 15:57:04
Message: <4b6f2920@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >> For the voice, they had a speech synthesizer say the lines, then asked the 
> >> voice actress to speak the lines the same way, then post-processed the real 
> >> voice to sound like a computer. Kind of a round-about way of doing it.
> > 
> >   I would be surprised if they would have been able to do it purely with
> > software. I don't think text-to-speech is that advanced yet.

> In case you hadn't noticed or weren't aware of it, Vocaloid is a program 
> that takes a library of sounds made by a person and lets you string them 
> together arbitrarily to create a synthetic version of that person.  It's 
> a ways off from sounding truly accurate, but it's a step up from MS Sam.

  Which proves the point I made.

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                                                          - Warp


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