Elektron Musical Instruments

heh, i had this Optimus Prime thing where a straw thing came out of the 
back of him and when you put the straw in your mouth and mouthed words 
over it you would sound like a transformer. I wish i could find it : (


On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 03:14 AM, endlessnessisticman wrote:

>>   SAM stood for "Software Automated Mouth" actually, and I believe
> it was
>>   distributed by Don't Ask Software.  To this day I've never really
> heard
>>   any significant advances in voice synthesis, or at least text-to-
> speech.
>
> You should search for anything called "experimental phonetics".
> There is alot of study in speach and it's synthesis.  I've never
> heard of SAM.  As I linguist I don't care for text to speach.
> Although this is good for practical reasons (the blind), writing is
> independant of the production of language.  I would prefer a program
> that allows me to make the different basic speech elements such as
> the consonanats or vowels.  Something that emulates the mouth and
> articulation, etc.  This would be a great machine to add to the MD.
> Could call it a Vox-Box.  It could at least make it sound like some
> vowels.  I'm sure we could make the consonants with the current
> machines.
>
> But there is that program called SayIt.  You can get it from that
> DirectX site.  You type it in the program and it makes a voice.  You
> can save to a wave file with it.
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