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Really good idea.  I have os 10.4, which has a nice text to speech  
program, with different voices, and I can capture the output with  
wiretap pro.  Excellent!

Thanks!

Eric Siegel




On Jun 23, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Stuart Kohlhagen wrote:

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> Eric,
>
> one possibility would be to feed a text to speach program the  
> required phonemes and diphones, and record the output. Using some  
> of the better text to speech engines ( that use processed real  
> human voices as a starting point) might give you a resource that  
> you can use. I have some utilities that can take text and output   
> direct to wav files, via a text to speech engine. If you can;t find  
> it already off the shelf, contact me off list and I'll see if what  
> I can do is what you can use.
> cheers
>
> Stuart Kohlhagen
> Manager Exhibtion Services
> Questacon
> The National Science and Technology Centre
> Australia
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> Hello, all:
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> For an exhibit that I am working on, I am looking for short wav or
> aiff samples of phonemes and diphones.  I know this is an obscure
> request, but you all are as good a resource for obscure requests as
> any group I know.  Plan b is to record people talking and chop the
> recording up, but I am assuming someone has already done that...
>
> I have found this:  http://freesound.iua.upf.edu, but they only have
> phonemes, not diphones.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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> Eric Siegel
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