[DECtalk] Status of the archive

[Tony Baechler]

Hi,

Well, Mbrola is free, high quality and easily accessible since it's 
command line only.  The problem is learning the phonemes.  
Unfortunately, I think documentation is lacking and I don't know how 
well it works in Windows.  For casual text to speech it doesn't work 
very well, but it can sing if one takes the time to learn the phonemes.  
It can speak several languages.  If you have ESpeak installed, it will 
show you a sample of the Mbrola phonemes which you could use to 
experiment with and perhaps make it sing.  ESpeak does run in Windows 
and Linux but doesn't have the best quality voice and is difficult for 
people uncomfortable with the command line.

On 9/25/2009 8:33 AM, Jayson Smith wrote:
>       Actually, as far as I know, it is not possible to make Eloquence sing.
> I'm pretty sure he just recorded it saying the phrase in question, then used
> effects, E.G. probably a vocoder, to make it sound sort of like it was
> singing. But it really wasn't. Man, we need a good, easy to use,
> high-quality singing synthesizer! Anyone know if Yamaha's Vocaloid is
> accessible? I'd tend to bet against it.
> Jayson
>