Originally Posted By: VideoTrack
Excellent idea Don, and absolutely very commendable.

My results with Synsy have been less than desirable, partly possibly due to the Japanese sounding phonemes that have been used.

More information on Synsy is available here

Of course, YMMV

Fellow forum fember David Cuny has also been developing SynSinger, a similar product and one you might explore also.



Ian,

Yes, I've been working with David Cuny.

Voice synthesis, especially singing, is in it's infancy. I'm hoping to get David connected to the engineering staff at Dynavox-Tobii who have developed the most realistic-sounding speaking voice that I've ever heard. It seems to me that singing voices would be a logical progression. I don't know if David was successful in contacting their R&D engineers.

Dynavox was recently acquired by a Japanese company, Tobii, so I'm anxious to see/hear what they do with the technology.

Another interesting technology is a voice bank (I've forgotten the name) where they take snippets of volunteer's speech then concatenate them and process the results through a Melodyn-type processor. That idea shows a great potential.

Donny

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