@Tamasg TGMusicbox.
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@Tamasg TGMusicbox. The midiable and audiofilable singing/natural speaking synthesizer. Welcome to another idea. You could use ideas from marks work on vocalwriter/macintalks engine and dectalk. Or, hmm. That might not be legal, but again it's worth an experiment at least unless it's not. I wonder how fun espeak is? These are ideas I've played with but it usually doesn't know how to work with that old c code from these synths properly, there again I have not tested the new openAI model with it yet. There's also rsynth and the work RHDunn did on that old thing which I can send ya if you need its link.
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@Tamasg TGMusicbox. The midiable and audiofilable singing/natural speaking synthesizer. Welcome to another idea. You could use ideas from marks work on vocalwriter/macintalks engine and dectalk. Or, hmm. That might not be legal, but again it's worth an experiment at least unless it's not. I wonder how fun espeak is? These are ideas I've played with but it usually doesn't know how to work with that old c code from these synths properly, there again I have not tested the new openAI model with it yet. There's also rsynth and the work RHDunn did on that old thing which I can send ya if you need its link.
@danestange hm rsynth? what the heck was that? love your messages! They are what cheer me up to keep this thing going, ha. TG Musicbox, lol. not a bad one. Haha. And the Scottish thing might be on either some of the vowels or perhaps a stronger R-coloring than you're used to in US? Would love to better know. But yeah, the original 90 or so phonemes were Espeak's tuned from UK English probably, I've since added well over 100 phonemes including US English specifics for vowels, but again all of it was tuned that British base, you're right on that one.
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@danestange hm rsynth? what the heck was that? love your messages! They are what cheer me up to keep this thing going, ha. TG Musicbox, lol. not a bad one. Haha. And the Scottish thing might be on either some of the vowels or perhaps a stronger R-coloring than you're used to in US? Would love to better know. But yeah, the original 90 or so phonemes were Espeak's tuned from UK English probably, I've since added well over 100 phonemes including US English specifics for vowels, but again all of it was tuned that British base, you're right on that one.
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@danestange you know what's great though, he also has a UK English dictionary with about 2000 words, I'm borrowing it to now be a part of our UK English stress dictionary. So just by browsing his repos I found something useful!
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@danestange you know what's great though, he also has a UK English dictionary with about 2000 words, I'm borrowing it to now be a part of our UK English stress dictionary. So just by browsing his repos I found something useful!
@Tamasg sorry by the way, I should've clerrified I was talking about the a and o phonemes, a as in May or Say, o as in no or bro, u as in you or do or who. Those are the britified sounding ones. They sound rather not britified just super what'∮ word, forced? Hmm. I can't quite wordise it. It sounds like a very scottish person, also how it says some words like the number 4, the word force or course also sound a bit oddlier than how it says words like for. It's r sound natively though sounds rounded though, less relaxed.
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@Tamasg sorry by the way, I should've clerrified I was talking about the a and o phonemes, a as in May or Say, o as in no or bro, u as in you or do or who. Those are the britified sounding ones. They sound rather not britified just super what'∮ word, forced? Hmm. I can't quite wordise it. It sounds like a very scottish person, also how it says some words like the number 4, the word force or course also sound a bit oddlier than how it says words like for. It's r sound natively though sounds rounded though, less relaxed.
@danestange Thanks for getting specific — that's exactly the kind of feedback that helps! You were right about the
vowels. I compared our formant targets against acoustic research data (Hillenbrand et al. 1995) and found several vowels were under-fronted or had wrong diphthong sweep directions. Just pushed fixes for the TRAP, KIT, GOAT, and
THOUGHT vowels. The "Scottish" quality should be noticeably reduced. The R is on the list too. Would love to hear what
you think once the next build is out! -
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