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Title: Anyone know of any good voice synthesizers?
Post by: SirCumference on May 16, 2011, 09:43:59 pm

I'm looking for a good voice synthesizer for mods that aren't voice acted. Microsoft Anna is kind of lame. Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Anyone know of any good voice synthesizers?
Post by: Droid803 on May 16, 2011, 10:07:54 pm

Vocaloid.

wait, not singing. nvm.

Title: Re: Anyone know of any good voice synthesizers?
Post by: SirCumference on May 16, 2011, 10:32:36 pm

Free would be nice :)

Title: Re: Anyone know of any good voice synthesizers?
Post by: Destiny on May 16, 2011, 10:52:03 pm

You could try Google Translate-

Well...they don't sound that monotone, but sometimes the tone/pitch can be way off.

Title: Re: Anyone know of any good voice synthesizers?
Post by: SirCumference on May 17, 2011, 01:07:49 am

I'm looking for something that can be used in-game for briefings, com chatter, and other vocals. Most mods aren't voice acted and it's kind of annoying to have to keep pausing the game to read each new message. I'm wondering if anyone has any text-to-speech voices that they would recommend.

Title: Re: Anyone know of any good voice synthesizers?
Post by: MatthTheGeek on May 17, 2011, 03:02:45 am

I remember Portal Prelude used a pretty good TTS software, I don't remember the name though.

Title: Re: Anyone know of any good voice synthesizers?
Post by: horza on May 17, 2011, 11:23:00 am

You could give espeak a try. It's open source and available for several platforms. Check http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ (http://espeak.sourceforge.net/).
Greetings, horza