On Mon, September 3, 2012 6:46 am, SxDx wrote: > ----- 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. You can create your own voices so the default voice should not be used as the reference for a singing voice. Even then I was amazed by how close to real it sounded for chanting emulation. > What we hear in the video > above is much more realistic and I wondered how they do > that. Seems it's not public knowledge. > TTS is a huge research area. Some people are putting their work online. http://gitorious.org/lauloid http://stephane.magnenat.net/music.html IIRC there is some very advanced open source voice synth software originating in France. I can't recall the name of the institute who sponsors the development but I'm sure there are others on this list who know of it. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
