Tim Cook 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.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid
> 
> Whole load of youtube videos with it.


Vocaloid works great with the limited phonetic set of Japanese. I have
not heard any of them sing in English convincingly.

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