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| Hi. Firstly thanks to everyone who has helped and e-mailed in the recent past. I have an idea for an iClone project but as there will be many characters in the script I am looking for a good voice changing software package. (For some reason my voice does not quite suit the 'big screen'). I have tried two or three packages but they are not great and not consistent. I have even tried toy microphone voice changers, handkerchiefs over the mike and a variety of other things. I would ideally like a Text to Speech package that does not give out Microsoft 'android sounding' voices, but I am obviously open to any suggestions. Thanks very much in advance.
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| Keep searching...I have seeked the same. I have yet to find a text to speech solution that works well... And I can't really figure it out - we have these wildly complex, 3D visual / image effects available - but we can not seem to simulate human speech with any acuracy at all. I suspect that it is about commercial need - do we really care what our bank balance "sounds like" when the accout is nearly empty....
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
--Edgar Allan Poe
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| Personally I like the Kate and Paul 16khz voices from Neospeech which are very realistic and not too robotic most of the time. If you would like to sample some of the voices just click the names in the Preview section from the link below. http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/ct_tts.asp
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| Thanks Guys. I have been looking at Neospeech and Textaloud. I'll bite the bullet and dig into the bank balance. I'll let you know how I get on.
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| Hi again. Just to say I bit the bullet and purchased Text Aloud and a couple of Neospeech voices and they work very well indeed. You can alter voice pitches, speed etc within Text Aloud or other software and therefor obtain many different character voices. Will save hours of trying to get my voice to sound 'as good as I look', and fiddling in other programmes. I can now get on with the important business of 'making movies' with iClone. You can try out Text Aloud at www.nextup.com Please note however, that the sample voices you get with the trial download are only similar to other TTS software.
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| Hi yall might wanna try Fl studio 7 it has a speach synthesizer you can type in what you want the character to say, change the tone,volume pitch and etc. You can change the voice from a young male to a old male and young girl to a older women.
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| The trouble with the text to speech engines is the lack of inflection, so also check out MorphVox from Screaming Bee. Basically, I record my own voice as a wave file, talking, shouting, singing etc, and MorphVox creates a new altered wave file based on audio manipulation. The software also comes with many preset characters (man, woman, fairy, Ogre, robot, etc).
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| Looks a very useful piece of software. Thanks for sharing the information. http://www.screamingbee.com/product/products.aspx rweston (3/10/2008)
The trouble with the text to speech engines is the lack of inflection, so also check out MorphVox from Screaming Bee. Basically, I record my own voice as a wave file, talking, shouting, singing etc, and MorphVox creates a new altered wave file based on audio manipulation. The software also comes with many preset characters (man, woman, fairy, Ogre, robot, etc).
Peter Edwards
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