[sdiy] OT: Singing Software

[Dave Krooshof]

>If you thought hypercard was versatile, try out the graphing calculator
>built into >OS 9.
The OS 8.6 version already was beautiful.
Can it do audio?

>I don't suppose anybody here has a copy of pro tools for me to "evaluate"?
>>(seriously, though, I'm just trying to figure out which package I want to
>use on my G3 at this point)
Yes, digidesign does.
There's a free version @ http://www.digidesign.com
It can only do 8 audio tracks, and unlike the full version it uses the
mac's soundmanager, but for the rest it's fully functional. And hey,
there's a
PC version too...

>Apparently MC Hawking's Crib isn't online at the moment. It was here:
>http://www.mchawking.com
Pity. Must be funny.

>>Bycycle Built for Two is a computermusic classic.
>>I have a IBM 7" promo from the late sixties, with a IBM computer
>>singing that. Sounds remarkably the same. Cool. I like these traditions.
>I always thought the name of the song "Daisy" for some reason. I assume
>this sounds a bit more electronic than the HAL 9000 rendition?
Daisy was the filename of the song at the sample files at
http://kaelabs.com/support.htm , so your not the only one.
Is the HAL 9000 version online somewhere?
The version by dr. M. V. Matthews dates from 1962, and is *good*.
I'll put a mp3 online for educational purposes.

BTW, on day, I'll also put up a translation of the Mouth Synthesizer by
Wim the Bie and Kees van Kooten. "it's small enough to fit in my mouth,
yet it contains 6000 fuses."


>Marilyn Manson has used it (probably got it from Trent Reznor). I think
>I've heard it other places as well.
The legend is that SteveJobs was hoping that his computers could speak
one day. He was brought to tears when his programmers secretly forfilled
his dream and ran the software on a presentation.
Now it's everywhere... "MTV uncovers the stars" was speech too.

>Dave, what's this about Hypercard stacks?  Is this some way to program
>custom voices for the mac?  I believe it's os 8.0 and up that have a
>built in speech program, is this the "Mac Speech" that you are
>referring to?
Speech is _old_. It runs on pre system 7.5 computers.
I think it even runs on 68040 Macs (pre PPC).

Hypercard was/is a typical mac way of programming.
It uses 'cards' that can be interlinked like HTML pages,
and can run code. Lots of people wrote interesting 'stacks' for it.
But this genius concept never really made it to the big public.
There are hypercards stacks around on the www, that control Speech
and make it sing.



Dave


Here are leftovers of a afternoon playing with talker, speech and html...
http://www.xs4all.nl/~krooshof/play/sprekendepaginas/index.html