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  1. Use Cepstral? by McNihil · · Score: 1 · on LKML Summary Podcast

    Just pipe the script into Cepstral and be done!

    http://cepstral.com/

    It has many voices and sounds very good IMHO.

  2. Scary voices by LordEd · · Score: 1 · on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled

    Try using the "Damien" voice from cepstral for this robot. Then give it some red LED eyes.

    As for hacking the robot... do you really want to get that close?

  3. Almost true... by ProfessionalCookie · · Score: 1 · on New Mac-o-Lantern
    That's almost true but there are a few companies getting better. For MacOS, Linux, Solaris or Windows you might consider Cepstral.
     
    If you're a Mac user you'll be looking forward to Alex, the new voice included in 10.5.
     
    Anyway to keep this all on the topic of pumkins, here's my geometrically correct soccerball pumpkin.

    Happy Halloween All.

  4. Re:Scanning Audio Files by jpsst34 · · Score: 1 · on Translation Software That Learns by Reading

    ...or if it relies on text to speech from to convert it to text first?

    Text to Speech doesn't convert audio to text. That technology is called Automatic Speech Recognition.


    ...based on the quality of current text-to-speech software, this probably wouldn't do much good...

    Have you heard Cepstral David?

  5. Check out Cepstral by barries · · Score: 1 · on Replacing VOCA with a Laptop?
    Check out Cepstral, which specializes in generating very good voices with open source tools. There is a better demo form here that lets you choose a voice and a number of special effects, including accents such as French Canadian or German.

    As a side note, one of its founders is Kevin Lenzo, of YAPC and Perl Foundation fame.

    - Barrie

  6. Check out Cepstral by barries · · Score: 1 · on Replacing VOCA with a Laptop?
    Check out Cepstral, which specializes in generating very good voices with open source tools. There is a better demo form here that lets you choose a voice and a number of special effects, including accents such as French Canadian or German.

    As a side note, one of its founders is Kevin Lenzo, of YAPC and Perl Foundation fame.

    - Barrie

  7. Re:I was expecting better... by Mandrake · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Phoneme Approach For Text-to-Speech in SCIAM

    We've also been doing this for quite some time. you can check out the Cepstral On-Line High Quality Synthesis Demos, as well as our High Quality Limited Domain Demos.

  8. Re:I was expecting better... by Mandrake · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Phoneme Approach For Text-to-Speech in SCIAM

    We've also been doing this for quite some time. you can check out the Cepstral On-Line High Quality Synthesis Demos, as well as our High Quality Limited Domain Demos.

  9. Re:Open Source Speech Synthesis by Mandrake · · Score: 2, Informative · on Phoneme Approach For Text-to-Speech in SCIAM

    You should also check out CMU Flite, which is by one of the guys who built Festival. He also works on other, high quality synthesizers at our company, which you can get demos of at our demo site.

  10. we've been doing this for a while by Mandrake · · Score: 2, Informative · on Phoneme Approach For Text-to-Speech in SCIAM

    This sort of technology has been under development for a long time, and we have demos up on our website, also: Cepstral Online Speech Synthesis Demos. In fact, we have Higher Quality Limited Domain Demos available as well.

  11. we've been doing this for a while by Mandrake · · Score: 2, Informative · on Phoneme Approach For Text-to-Speech in SCIAM

    This sort of technology has been under development for a long time, and we have demos up on our website, also: Cepstral Online Speech Synthesis Demos. In fact, we have Higher Quality Limited Domain Demos available as well.

  12. cepstral by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Phoneme Approach For Text-to-Speech in SCIAM

    these guys have a synth that runs on a handheld and does real time dsp. check out the demos - very cool.

  13. I just have to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on CGI About to Boom In Hollywood

    I just have to say that I have gotten off to Aki from Final Fantasy more than once. What a hot peice of CGI, I tell you!

    So, once actors go all digital, and the guys form Cepstral get computer generated voices down pat (almost, Geoff :) I'll be the first in line for some real time CG porn.

    If this is demoralizing, too bad. It's gonna happen anyway. Tenticle monsters or not.

  14. sphinx: free GPL-incompatible(?) speech recognizer by Adam+J.+Richter · · Score: 3, Informative · on Listen To Woz, And Perhaps Type Madly

    At LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Geoff Harrison (sp?), co-author of the Enlightenment window manager, talked about text/speech conversion. If I recall his talk correctly, most proprietary voice recognition software is derived from the free sphinx system developed at Carnegie-Mellon University, which also has a sourceforge area. The web page at CMU talks about a sphinx3 program that is slower but more accurate, which sounds like a better fit for transcribing a previously recorded interview, but I did not see a link to the source code for it.

    Geoff's employer, Cepstral, also claims to have released some related software under "relatively liberal" permissions. (Sorry, I could not find any download links or texts of the corresponding copying permissions.)

    The sphinx2 copying permissions have an advertising restriction similar to the one that made the old BSD copying conditions GPL incompatible but "free" in the opinion of the Free Software Foundation. I do not know about the situtation with sphinx, sphinx3 or any Cepstral contributions.

  15. sphinx: free GPL-incompatible(?) speech recognizer by Adam+J.+Richter · · Score: 3, Informative · on Listen To Woz, And Perhaps Type Madly

    At LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Geoff Harrison (sp?), co-author of the Enlightenment window manager, talked about text/speech conversion. If I recall his talk correctly, most proprietary voice recognition software is derived from the free sphinx system developed at Carnegie-Mellon University, which also has a sourceforge area. The web page at CMU talks about a sphinx3 program that is slower but more accurate, which sounds like a better fit for transcribing a previously recorded interview, but I did not see a link to the source code for it.

    Geoff's employer, Cepstral, also claims to have released some related software under "relatively liberal" permissions. (Sorry, I could not find any download links or texts of the corresponding copying permissions.)

    The sphinx2 copying permissions have an advertising restriction similar to the one that made the old BSD copying conditions GPL incompatible but "free" in the opinion of the Free Software Foundation. I do not know about the situtation with sphinx, sphinx3 or any Cepstral contributions.