wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a (not neccessarily GENTOO) software, whith which > > it is possible to synthesize the human voice (male / female). > > > > It does not neccessarily need to be a TTS (I tried some) -- but the > > voice needs easily to be tuned in the sense of pitch and sound. > > > > Suppose you want a synthetic voice of Frodo talking some Tengwar > > (and dont want to mimic the movies actors ;) or the northern slang > > of some Elbish ... ;) > > > > Another example would be vocaloid (commercial product). > > > > Is there some software of this kind somewhere for Linux? > > > > Thanks a lot for any voice coming up for this ! :))) > > It's some years ago that I use speech synthesizers and I can't > remember all details. > > First I use mbrola for some years. Unfortunately it is not an open > source program but it is available for gentoo. For some reason > (that I don't remember, maybe because it's not open source or > maybe because there is no 64bit binary) I switched over to espeak. > Later I also used festival. But I still used the mbrola voices > together with espeak and also with festival because they have a > very good quality (I downloaded some high quality mbrola voices > from the mbrola homepage).
P.S.: It is possible to tune some parameters for mbrola so that you can let it even sing a song. I can't remember if this is also possible with espeak or festival. -- Regards wabe
