Hi Jim, On 4 Jul 2009, at 17:09, Jim Simmons wrote:
> Edward, > > I think you have an interesting idea here. It reminded me of the > scene in _2001 A Space Odyssey_ where Hal 9000 is having the higher > functions of his brain disconnected and he tries to sing "Daisy" while > he still has enough connected to do it. From my experience working > with espeak I'd say that getting a computer to sing, even badly, may > be beyond what we can reasonably do today. Espeak can speak at > different pitches and rates, but I don't think you can change pitch > and rate while speech is going on and if you could that's still a long > way off from actual singing. Not convinced it would make a viable solution for Sugar but... There's a speech synth called Festival (actually developed by Edinburgh University, my old Uni). It does support a singing mode, but others have extended it more completely. Here's some MIDI generated samples from flinger (festival singer): http://speech.bme.ogi.edu/cgi-bin/flinger/show_jukebox.pl?all A few yeas back a colleague of mine was involved in a gallery art installation that used (I think) 4 Mac minis mounted on a wall, and a small back room server to parse incoming junk mail. The Mac minis then sang out some of that text content realtime :-) Regards, --Gary _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep