kimbersprophet
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hi there i was wondering if anyone here was good enough at speech synthesis on lsdj to make audible and easily deciphrable words and sentances i was thinking about doing a 3-4 min long spoken word type speech thingy about quantum physics and how our conciousness effects our reality, or how our reality is created by combined perception and then making a crazy tune to it (who knows maybe this should be a collab if anyone is up for it). all ive really heard from speech syn is quiet and garbled noises, i have played with it only a little just wondering what you guys here think??   

.....sorry if this has been discussed loads before but i only had a couple of mins net time in the library

and i know my english is rubbish aswell smile

W4LKR
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I'd love to know some tricks with the speech instrument!
I tried it a couple of days ago, it is pretty hard haha.

Jansaw
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First things first, mixing is the only thing that is going to make your speech stand out.

Panning certain tracks left and right, while keeping the wav (speech) center will help it come through the mix. This is a good practice in general, not just for speech. Give the listeners a soundscape.

In terms of arranging the speech so it sounds good... I'm not so sure that there are any "tricks," but just play around with good mixing and humanizing the speech (don't put them on every downbeat tick, try and give them space and change the syllable when it's natural to do so).

I'm rubbish at the speech things, so this is just some theoretical input.

Jotie
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZLSVzyi0SE
Pitch shift trick on the speech synth


I have a Sav -I think it's by roboctopus- with CHK R02 DIZR02 OUT R02. Which sounds really cool.


For the spoken word thing, that's just crazy insane to do with LSDJ. I have "Mortal Kombat","This one is dedicated to all the ravers of the nation", "kill three million people and become god" and "resistance is futile", "expialidocious" written in LSDJ and I'm not gonna touch that speech synth again any time soon. It's slow, difficult and in my opinion, flawed. You can't delete wrong letters. I don't think it's possible to generate enough words with 4F and speech kit instruments combined to achieve what you want.

Maybe a poem, but I don't expect much room for a song

kimbersprophet
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yes you can do what i want but im fully aware that it will take alot of diffrent .savs and a daw, but im willing to do the sentance stitching in ableton i am aware also that poor mixing is a problem when it comes to getting your "voice" heard but i have a computer so that need not be a problem so long as everyone who participates knows that this project will use more than a gb. im not a purist (as u might have guessed) just want to achieve something quirky and call it chiptune and original. for all those out there that say, but if u use a daw like ableton its not chiptune. i say feck it im not gonna change the source so its ok... just like if u had loads of gameboys and was really clever with timing...

i hope there are more than one of you who will accept this challenge and join me to create a pixelated perspective xxx

Zef
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Have fun with that, I've gotten decent at making words legible, but it takes pretty much forever, I'd never commit to doing anything a few minutes in length.

XyNo
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Joliette, QC, Canada

Download an Atari ST emulator and write your lines in STSPEECH it will show you how to do what you just wrote in allophones !
EDIT :
Here is the emulator :
http://www.emucr.com/2012/10/steem-sse-v340.html
and this is for ST Speech :
http://cd.textfiles.com/suzybatari2/wordwork/stspeech/

Have fun !

Last edited by XyNo (Nov 19, 2012 10:31 pm)

DJCactus
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D D D Detroit, not the burbs

isnt this method known as formant synthesis...  let me check the master.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar01/a … nthsec.asp  this could be some helpful reading, not entirely what you want but its what you get.

kimbersprophet
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i have recently got an atari 520 st so ill try get it working over the weekend i guess its probably too time consuming then to have mulyiple sav files when i could just use something like st speech just wonderd if anyone was up for the challange, thanks anyway guys

zerolanding
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wow! that's an amazing find. I will be adding more speech now. Thanks for sharing.

XyNo wrote:

Download an Atari ST emulator and write your lines in STSPEECH it will show you how to do what you just wrote in allophones !
EDIT :
Here is the emulator :
http://www.emucr.com/2012/10/steem-sse-v340.html
and this is for ST Speech :
http://cd.textfiles.com/suzybatari2/wordwork/stspeech/

Have fun !