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I am mute.


I know you've looked at various assistive technologies for that.

I just ran across a free Vocaloid clone called UTAU. It's a Japanese product, so it's targeted at the Japanese language, and has a Japanese GUI. But there is an English translation package available for it, along with tools for allowing it to sing in English.

Even so, it's got a bit of a steep learning curve associated with it, mostly because you're still dealing with Japanese phonemes and an only half-translated interface. Plus, it's very much mouse-based, so it might be a bit wearisome to try to use the interface if you've got difficulties.

Basically, it's got a database of about 50 phonemes. It pitch-shifts vowel sounds, and concatenates samples together by cross-fading them. It's got some pretty sophisticated options available, and a lot of different free voicebanks are out there. I've heard some decent English singing done with it, mainly on slower songs. Intelligibility tends to go down a bit as the rate increases.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?