On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: > 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.
It has been done. Google 「computer sing」 . But that doesn't matter for the purpose of Same-Language Subtitling of videos of people singing, or a karaoke program with text synched to MP3s. >> 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 http://www.chuckcaplan.com/blog/archives/2007/09/make_your_compu.html September 07, 2007 Make Your Computer Sing With Festival > 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 -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep