Text to speech AIFF

Robert Henke · Post by **Robert Henke** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:42 pm

CakeHole is great, but is there something similar for OSX that allows to adjust pitch and speed of the voices? (sorry, i am too lazy to do my own research, so I hope for the collective wisdom here... )

Cheers, Robert

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:45 pm

Robert Henke wrote:so I hope for the collective wisdom here...

I've been hoping for said wisdom for years.

abandon all hope ye who enter here.

tjwett · Post by **tjwett** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:52 pm

Automator:

-appropriate Text Edit action (or an AppleScript action that says "set input to get selection" if you want it to be of selected text

-Text to Audio File action (in Leopard you can set a variable to name the file automatically if you want)

save it as Finder Plugin and you can then assign a keystroke to it and it will run invisibly from the scripts menu.

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:56 pm

Robert Henke wrote:CakeHole is great, but is there something similar for OSX that allows to adjust pitch and speed of the voices? (sorry, i am too lazy to do my own research, so I hope for the collective wisdom here... )

Cheers, Robert

there is this software called ableton live, which you can load the sample into and it will do this!

Robert Henke · Post by **Robert Henke** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:06 am

@ doc holiday:

yeah, i heard about that. but ya know, it makes a difference if the speech synthesis itself is controlled or if the result is transformed. And warping a carefully crafted computer voice is a sin.

Heiko · Post by **Heiko** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:53 am

Hi guyz,

Verbalize is pretty nice and easy to use......

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/a ... alize.html

Enjoy, though beware of the Cheezy Robots.......

Heiko

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:10 am

There's an app called "Voice Box" for osx that lets you control pitch and speed of the voices. I used to have it and it worked pretty well. The demo would let you export up to 10 words so I never needed the full version.
The problem though, is that its unavailable for download at this moment.
The company that made it moved on to other things and doesn't offer the download anymore.
The DMG file must still be floating out there somewhere. But a first look at google reveals that all the site's that had it linked to the developers site. http://www.realmacsoftware.com/

Hayz · Post by **Hayz** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:16 pm

doc holiday wrote:
Robert Henke wrote:CakeHole is great, but is there something similar for OSX that allows to adjust pitch and speed of the voices? (sorry, i am too lazy to do my own research, so I hope for the collective wisdom here... )

Cheers, Robert
there is this software called ableton live, which you can load the sample into and it will do this!

Which tool in ableton would you use to do this? i.e adjust pitch and speed of voice most effectively? hayz

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:14 am

Hayz wrote:

Which tool in ableton would you use to do this? i.e adjust pitch and speed of voice most effectively? hayz

clip view

Hayz · Post by **Hayz** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:52 am

yes, I understand you can warp the vocal and time stretch there etc , but is there like a sampler that you can import vocals in to do this more effectively ot is clip view as good as anything?

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:17 pm

Robert Henke wrote:@ doc holiday:

yeah, i heard about that. but ya know, it makes a difference if the speech synthesis itself is controlled or if the result is transformed. And warping a carefully crafted computer voice is a sin.

hey i just found this on the forum..

http://nsgn.net/software/say/

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=92764

i dunno what the stretching/pitch shifting is like..

sxezskoz · Post by **sxezskoz** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:57 pm

Anybody know of a downloadable app for OSX for foreign language text to speech to aiff? Specifically Spanish. I've been using http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php for years but it'd be nice to have something offline and as sleek as Say.