2017-12-31 04:48:16

and does any one know who voiced amazon alexa?

be a hero and stop Coppa now!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dkm … DkWZ8/edit
-id software, 1995

2017-12-31 10:27:22

this is exactly the question I also have. recording hours and hours of audio, is not the problem,
and, i am willing to do this. as, to my understanding,
the more  phrases,
there is in a recorded audio, the better for the enjin, but the question remains, what app can we use that can put this all together, so that we can install and test it. if I can find that, I would be perfectly willing to record as many hours of audio as it needs.
I'd even be willing to dissect, cut up,  and do what ever I need to do, with this audio. to make the enjen as good as it could be. the idea that I get, from reading up, is that, the more and more recordings you have, the easier it is for the enjen to provide a natural voice, at the end of the day. so, if only we new what to use, to make this work, I'd be super happy to give this a go.

There's a place for me in this universe.

2017-12-31 17:59:20

@75. ESpeak, from what I've read, is a mix of formant and recorded speech. The consonants are gathered from recorded speech samples, whereas the vowels are done by adding together sine waves to produce the harmonics for them.

Oh no! Somebody released the h key! Everybody run and hide!

2017-12-31 18:23:24

Hmm, interesting. I'd like to see how I can generate an eSpeak sound using Audacity, if I can figure out the amplitude of each harmonic overtone, and how many of them there are.

Ulysses, KJ7ERC
She/they
Reedsy

2018-01-01 04:29:47

ammericandad2005 wrote:

and does any one know who voiced amazon alexa?

Alexa is a computer generated voice. It is not from recordings of any real person(s) voice. It is generated from rules converting text in human speech.

Pics or it didn’t happen

2018-01-01 05:36:35

How did you find out that Alexa is purely formant? It surely doesn't sound formant to me at all. I wonder what they used to create it?

Ulysses, KJ7ERC
She/they
Reedsy

2018-01-02 00:59:34

Green Gables Fan wrote:

How did you find out that Alexa is purely formant? It surely doesn't sound formant to me at all. I wonder what they used to create it?

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custo … rence.html

Pics or it didn’t happen

2018-01-02 01:44:43

Here's a video with the voice behind Google.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnGNfz7JiZ8

Kingdom of Loathing name JB77

2018-01-02 04:17:35

the voice of the bbc micro's speech synthesis card was provided by retired BBC News Anker kennith kendel.

be a hero and stop Coppa now!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dkm … DkWZ8/edit
-id software, 1995

2018-04-27 21:41:36 (edited by akse0435 2018-04-27 21:57:04)

Hi,

Well, I don't know, if anyone is interested, but I found some of the voices behind some danish TTS voices. The links with the voice names links to a danish site called "Speaker- og indlæserforeningen".

Acapela Mette:
Karen Abrahamsen

RealSpeak / Vocalizer Ida:
Anne-Mette Johansen

Vocalizer Expressive Sara:
Jette Sivertsen

Loquendo Frida:
Dorthe Mikkelsen Hansen

Ivona Mads:
Lars Thiesgaard

Best regards> Aksel Christoffersen

2018-04-30 19:55:38

Dennis klat (of dectalk fame) was the voice of steven hawking's trusty prose2000 speech generating device.

be a hero and stop Coppa now!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dkm … DkWZ8/edit
-id software, 1995

2018-07-24 15:48:18

I wonder how Dennis Klatt's real voice sounded, and if it sounded similar to Dectalk. Maybe it could be the voice, that announce the recordings in the Klatt's history of speech history on the website linked in post 75, but we can't know for sure. Does anyone have a recording of Klatt's real voice or something?

2018-09-09 23:25:18

Acapela's Josh is voiced by Emerson.
You can hear him in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWwjZuarB3o
Here is his youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/11e22m

Kingdom of Loathing name JB77

2018-10-09 14:31:16 (edited by akse0435 2018-10-09 14:35:02)

What is this file?

To me the name indicated, that it could possibly be a database of PCM sound for some speech synthesizer. Is this corect?