----- Original Message ----- > From: "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 11:25:26 PM > Subject: Synthesized voices [was :Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)] > > > On Sun, September 2, 2012 6:18 am, SxDx wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> The East West Choirs sing your lyrics. It's not another Ahhhh or > >> Ohhhh > >> sample ;). > >> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI5Gg2-mhmU > > > > any technical info on that? free software doing the same, research > > papers > > (easily available), anything? > > > > As an aside, one possible way of dealing with this issue is to create > your > own voices for applications like orca. > > If you want a quick and easy way to get started with that process you > can > run "AT Distro" in a virtual machine. > > http://atdistro.com thanks for pointing that out. I tried a bit, it's slow in qemu (expected). But it seems orca uses espeak, and the voice is not realistic. What we hear in the video above is much more realistic and I wondered how they do that. Seems it's not public knowledge. Thanks anyway. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user