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As a Mac user, I had to giggle a little--because the first thing I  
think of is the Cellos voice, and how much fun it is to write silly  
lyrics for it to sing to the tune of the Hall of the Mountain King.   
Ah yes, who needs hobbies?

Eric, try the IBM text-to-speech interactive
http://www.research.ibm.com/tts/coredemo.shtml

the voices are a little more natural in tone and less apt to  
paraphasia than "Agnes" and "Ralph."

I poked around my harddrive a little bit, to see if there are folders  
full of phonemes from which Agnes and Ralph can build their voices,  
but I can't figure out where Apple hides any of the text-to-speech  
stuff.
And it's safe to assume the voices come straight out of computer  
code, and are not little .wav file building blocks, as an innocent  
mac hacker might hope.

I'm curious what you're up to.  & how it works out.
There are some phonemes that are notoriously difficult to record (the  
glottal aspirants, the alveopalatals...) and those that bully their  
way to the front row of any vocal recording (the labial stops).


--Jason


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On Jun 23, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Eric Siegel wrote:

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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!
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> Thanks!
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> On Jun 23, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Stuart Kohlhagen wrote:
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>> Eric,
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>> 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
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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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