Forwarded from Than, who is not on this list:
Hi,
(Mac only:)
You might want to know this object:
http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~aka/max/#aka_speech
'Speakable items' is probably applescriptable, so you can make you
own commands, or apps, like, say:
http://nsgn.net/software/say/
Applescript indeed!
-> Terminal enter:
osascript -e 'say "hi there"'
and there you go...
If you'd want to build your own Speech Synthesis for Mac, first read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainTalk and learn about diphones...
And also check out:
http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html
Hope this was a bit of help?
grz,
Than
On 19 Sep 2008, at 13:43, Laurens van der Wee wrote:
>
> Than did it, yes. But he used a speech library rather than a
> synthesis algorithm. It was actually on the ICMC this year: a
> certain number of clients, able of typing in text which was then
> send to an engine, local on every machine, automatically downloaded
> by the software, which did the speech.
> I did not do this myself, so I might be wrong on some points here.
> All patched together in Max/MSP, by the way, using a Java-based
> network thingie.
>
> I'll forward this mail to the man himself.
>
> laurens.
>
> l.vanderwee_at_gmail.com
> laurens_at_appelsenperen.org
> (+31) 646 11 30 20
>
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> On 19-sep-2008, at 9:38, luc van Weelden wrote:
>
>> there are two students from the utrecht school of arts who did
>> something with this.
>> i'll bet that laurens van der wee can tell some more about this as
>> he is in the same class as those guys.
>>
>> laurens??
>>
>>
>> luc
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:51 AM, AlgoMantra <algomantra_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> Um, has anybody toyed with the idea of building an IRC bot that
>> converts the chat commands into locally executed audio synthesis
>> commands? This is all hypothetical, of course.
>>
>> You log in, you type commands as if you're chatting, and users
>> perceive
>> the change together because they can hear it. The bot is using the
>> chat
>> commands to drive audio synthesis locally on the client.
>>
>> Everybody hears the same sound over the group of users and lurkers.
>> It's a bit like editing the Wikipedia, except you're composing music.
>>
>> ------- -.-
>> 1/f ))) --.
>> ------- ...
>> http://www.algomantra.com
>>
>
Received on Fri Sep 19 2008 - 22:06:08 BST