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VaporTrailx1
Jan 3rd, 2009, 01:22 AM
I'm looking for text to speech voices for my pc as part of a project I'm working on. I'm looking for something old-school sounding like WarGames. Anyone know where to find them?

Tadao
Jan 3rd, 2009, 01:34 AM
This one says that it does that.

http://www.digitalfuturesoft.com/texttospeechproducts.php

VaporTrailx1
Jan 3rd, 2009, 01:40 AM
They all sound too human. I want something electronic. lol

Fathom Zero
Jan 3rd, 2009, 02:03 AM
It would be easy to manipulate the output, unless you need an on-the-fly voice modifier.

Tadao
Jan 3rd, 2009, 02:34 AM
One of the options lower down says "Converts typed text to generic robotic speech"

mew barios
Jan 3rd, 2009, 11:36 AM
controlpanel>speech

McClain
Jan 3rd, 2009, 02:43 PM
Download Shit Talker (http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=shit+talker+download&aq=-1&oq=shit+talker+).

10,000 Volt Ghost
Jan 3rd, 2009, 02:50 PM
Microsaft SAM

Kitsa
Jan 3rd, 2009, 05:31 PM
there was an oldoldoldold one called "Doctor" that I remember back in the early 80s when my parents got their first PC. I remember being a little creeped out when my brother would beg me to go play Doctor.

Mockery
Jan 3rd, 2009, 07:24 PM
I've always preferred Sayz Me:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sayzme/

I actually used it extensively for all the character voices in the Haunted House Candy Hunt game here:
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/starween

It came in particularly handy when I was doing Death's voice at the end because, in addition to selecting a male or female voice, the program allows you to change the speed/pitch of the voices that read the text.

10,000 Volt Ghost
Jan 5th, 2009, 03:25 PM
I guess in vista it's called Microsoft Anna now.

ElPila666
Jan 6th, 2009, 11:28 AM
Sometimes when i get sick n tired of reading gamefaqs guides i like to use Loquendo TTS, kenneth's voice is really peacefull it sounds like gandhi. :)

VaporTrailx1
Jan 8th, 2009, 06:21 PM
Microsoft Anna's a self-righteous bitch lol

10,000 Volt Ghost
Jan 8th, 2009, 07:36 PM
I haven't heard her yet, I just noticed it when I installed Vent the other day. How bad is it?

VaporTrailx1
Jan 11th, 2009, 06:58 PM
Pretty humanish. I prefer my pc to be cold and impersonal. If you put it on the slowest settings she sounds drunk.

10,000 Volt Ghost
Jan 12th, 2009, 09:16 PM
Awesome. To think I wasn't going to have anything to do tonight when I got home.

kahljorn
Jan 12th, 2009, 09:19 PM
yea that's basically like free phone sex or something

Sam
Jan 12th, 2009, 09:42 PM
THAT IS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE WHEN THAT SMART RETARD IN THE WHEEL CHAIR HAS SEX :rolleyes

CARL SAGAN OR WHATEVER HIS NAME IS. :(

kahljorn
Jan 12th, 2009, 11:12 PM
lol fuck that carl sagan he's such a plagiarist. I've heard that he even steals ideas he disagrees with!

Black Flag
Jan 13th, 2009, 09:19 AM
all you windows dork are missing out.

fred is and always has been where it's at.