[TmEE]

http://www.fileden.c...35/TSPEECH3.BIN

Samples aren't optimal yet, but its a fairly good beginning IMO

Regen or Fusion only (Fusion preferred). Should work on real HW, not yet tested it.

[Andlabs]

All right! I'll have to try it later! I hope the quality is amazing compared to commercial games.

This post has been edited by Andlabs: 24 February 2009 - 02:54 PM

[Rika Chou]

Neat, though I only understand the first "1 2 3". I tried it in both Gens and Kega and it sounded pretty much the same.

[Overlord]

I'm going to guess the person who recorded the samples isn't a native English speaker. Might wanna re-do those with someone who is simply for sake of clarity.

Nice start though! I could make some words out.

[ICEknight]

Hahaha, awesome! It sounds a lot like an old Spectrum game I used to have, called Cobra's Arc... except that Spanish is much easier to reproduce phonetically, of course.

Here's the text version. =P

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Nuuan tuu thrii testing testing this is th{ demonstreitzion of tiidosspiits sinthesaizer foor sega mega draiv]nd dzenesis. ]s juu kh]n hi{r, things dount saundth]t guud jet. th{ voiss s]mpls niid samm moor v{{rktu bi dann on them. stey tuund, moor tu kham leiter

[TmEE]

Spanish has more ways of spelling things and thus more complex. That ununderstandable text string is how you have to write Estonian to get approximate English pronounciation... (and that capital N in the beginning of string is not part of it)

Yeah, I do not speak english natively... and this is only my first alpha, 2nd version would sound much better. It will still have some of its issues because its like 100 bytes of code and some 65KB of samples :P

Anyway, I hope to clear out the samples by tomorrow and then things should be good enough. Not as good as "Microsoft Sam" thing, but my synth is just so simple and works entirely around Estonian pronounciation system.

oh, and how things sound depend on how I talk English myself, and I have quite strong accent :P

This post has been edited by TmEE: 24 February 2009 - 06:58 PM

[Andlabs]

Just tried it out. It's kinda cool. Mac OS X: It works in Generator and Kega with the same audio quality; but doesn't play a thing in Genesis Plus. Which is odd, because Genesis Plus is supposedly at the same level as Kega, but I think I did hear from some people that Genesis Plus's sound emulation isn't the hottest thing in the world.

Good luck with this!

[Flygon]

Record my voice for the samples.

Nah, kidding, people complain my voice is 'too deep' anyway.

Anyway, for people that do not completely understand it yet:

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One, two, three. Testing, testing. This is the demonstration of Tiido's speech synthesiser for Sega Mega Drive and Genesis. As you can hear, things don't that sound good yet. The voice samples need some more work to bring them to spec. Stay tuned, more to come later.

But yeah, I am loving this, it does indeed need more work in the voice samples, but after listening to it several times, it begins to make sense.

And yes, I did steal ICEknights translation as a base, but I still needed to figure out some words by myself anyway .

This post has been edited by Flygon: 25 February 2009 - 02:27 AM

[Sik]

The problem with the voice synthetizer is that Tiido just recorded his voice and slapped parts of what he recorded directly. And moreover, this isn't exactly the best of his recordings (I was talking to him about this).

If someday he manages to have enough time, he should try recording his voice (maybe several times, heck, even the voice from other people too), see what waveforms are generated and create new samples based on the common patterns of those (which of course would as well join perfectly). Then it'll sound good. Add pitch and volume control (dammit, even tempo, these waveforms are played like a single-channel module!), and pretty much you have a quite good control over the voice (making it not being so emotionless, change the gender, etc.).

This post has been edited by Sik: 25 February 2009 - 01:34 AM

[LocalH]

Next try porting the Amiga speech synthesizer to the MD =P

[ICEknight]

TmEE, on Feb 24 2009, 06:19 PM, said:

Spanish has more ways of spelling things and thus more complex.

Hmm? We have only one way to read each letter, just like in Japanese. It's much more simple than English, where each letter can be pronounced quite differently depending on the case (gaol, anyone?).


There's always exceptions, but they're only a few cases.

This post has been edited by ICEknight: 25 February 2009 - 05:25 PM

[nineko]

ICEknight, on Feb 25 2009, 11:23 PM, said:

We have only one way to read each letter, just like in Japanese.
(...)
There's always exceptions, but they're only a few cases.

Just like Italian and Finnish.

[TmEE]

In Estonian its same, a letter in any word is always pronounced same (with few exceptions). So you guys can potentially make it speak English or any other language after a while :P

This post has been edited by TmEE: 25 February 2009 - 06:24 PM

[RamiroR]

ICEknight, on Feb 25 2009, 08:23 PM, said:

TmEE, on Feb 24 2009, 06:19 PM, said:

Spanish has more ways of spelling things and thus more complex.

Hmm? We have only one way to read each letter, just like in Japanese. It's much more simple than English, where each letter can be pronounced quite differently depending on the case (gaol, anyone?).


There's always exceptions, but they're only a few cases.

of course I agree with him xD, as english it's not pronounced as written...

maybe, tiido, you should try an spanish version xD

by the way, I got a headache.. :S

and I think this needs some phonetic knowledge

This post has been edited by RamiroR: 26 February 2009 - 04:26 PM

[Elratauru]

ICEknight, on Feb 25 2009, 07:23 PM, said:

TmEE, on Feb 24 2009, 06:19 PM, said:

Spanish has more ways of spelling things and thus more complex.

Hmm? We have only one way to read each letter, just like in Japanese. It's much more simple than English, where each letter can be pronounced quite differently depending on the case (gaol, anyone?).


There's always exceptions, but they're only a few cases.

Mmm... I don't think Spanish is easier, think this:

We (native spanish speakers) use "Perro" for a male dog, or "Perra" for a female dog... also, we got "La perra" o "El perro", in english you use "The dog" and it doesnt matter the gender...

Also, we got the volcals with " ´ " ... and that is what gives the pronunciation... is not the same to say "Por qué?" or "Porque" ...almost the same word for different things...

Heck, we also got some hard tenses like "Preterito plus cuan perfecto" ... (No me acuerdo si se escribía así xD)... Altough english got tenses like past perfect its not the same thing you know...