TLe_Forgeron wrote:
> On 25/11/2014 21:11, Leroy wrote:
>>  I been playing around with animating robots. You know getting them to
>> walk, talk and fall down. So the next step is to put them in a little
>> story. I'm no writer. But I did write up a little scene with two robots
>> talking and doing stuff.
>>   I used a text to speech program (Zebspeech)to do the voices. But I
>> don't like having to record the whole text in each voice the editing
>> them together. And the voices where a little flat.(more editing)
>>  The prefect program for me would be one that could read my script
>> dropping all the stage directions and speaking the appropriate voice,
>> with some emotional control over each voice.
>>  Any one heard of such a thing or do I have to make it?
> 
> I remember a long time ago, when I had windows, the soundblaster card
> came with such kind of voice synthetizer, with a syntax to change the
> module (aka voice).
> 
> On linux, Festival has a mode to process commands, and it's then easy to
> switch to another voice. It just make the normal text a bit cumbersome,
> as it must be inserted in commands too (SayText...)
> (well, Festival is not linux centric, so there is some binary for
> windows too... if you like terminal...)
> 
> The nice thing, there is even a command to save to a wave file.
> 
> The hard thing: it's hard to get new voices.
Thanks. I give it a look and see.

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