Here's what the raw data of the unit selection db file for SpeakEasy sounds like.

[datajake1999@dragonscave.space]

@rommix0 If my theory about the engine using MBROLA as a backend is correct, what we are actually hearing are the building blocks for a diphone based voice. When I listened to the clip you posted, it sounded familiar, and after listening to the clip of the synth itself, I remembered listening to the raw data of EN1 a while back.

[rommix0@mindly.social]

@datajake1999 in a way, yeah. It's like MBROLA, but not actually MBROLA since speakeasy is proprietary.

[borrisinabox@fwoof.space]

@rommix0 is that 8-bit linear PCM?

[rommix0@mindly.social]

@BorrisInABox nah, it's 16 bit. I'm sure the data has subheaders.

[borrisinabox@fwoof.space]

@rommix0 Wow, really? Sounds very 8-bit or less in that clip.

[rommix0@mindly.social]

@BorrisInABox you would think that

[x0@dragonscave.space]

@rommix0 @BorrisInABox Or some kind of compressed.

[rommix0@mindly.social]

@x0 @BorrisInABox yeah like adpcm

[alexchapman@tweesecake.social]

@rommix0 @datajake1999 Yeah I definitely recognise that as diphone based synthesis.

[spacepup@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@rommix0 i think it's diphone, specifically, the embrola en1 database

[rommix0@mindly.social]

@spacepup Nah. en1 is english but with a foreign speaker. The speaker used for SpeakEasy is not a foreigner.

[alan@dragonscave.space]

@rommix0 sounds like a fucked up vocal warmup

[keao@caneandable.social]

@rommix0 what is speak easy?

[rommix0@mindly.social]

@keao tts synth