I select the word LIKE and Apmlify it then I select the word BLUE and slow the tempo without changing the pitch. If I want feeling in it I need to stress the verb (LIKE) and stretch the word (BLUE) subject. Now as far as making a machine voice appear more human. There is a cool site that has amazing TTS voices you can use Audacity to copy them from the website, just run Audacity in the background while accessing the TTS voices on you don’t have to sign up just play with the tools at hand. First try not to use the “standards” like MS Sam or Mike. But I try to use live actors when they are available. Is there anything I can do to process the voices and make them sound better? Latest episode (so you can see what i mean) is below:
#Tts cepstral voices series
On the other hand, a totally synthesized voice could add an interesting flavour to the productions, but I think that you need to find a way of improving the rhythm of the speech.ĪM working on a series of “fanimations” using Cepstral TTS voices as the actors. If you are on Windows, it may be worth looking into that.Įven with the best of current technology it is difficult if indeed possible to synthesize completely natural speech, so it may ultimately be best to try and find a couple of voice artists that are sufficiently enthusiastic about your productions to work with you on the voice-overs.
I believe this was originally (or at least in part) developed by Microsoft, and has subsequently been superseded by Microsoft Reader text-to-speech. Some text readers, such as the TextAssist program that was packaged with SoundBlaster cards allowed quite detailed shaping of pitch and timing through using a phonetic language combined with special “tags”. This could be improved with a lot of editing in Audacity, but would be difficult and very time consuming.
To my ear, the most obtrusive downfall of the speech you are using is the unnatural rhythm. You’ve got something of a battle on your hands.
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