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Voice modelling plugin?

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:14 am
by 4.33
Does anybody remember the name of that plugin?
You type in text and dial the notes in pianoroll and the voice sings what you've entered.
As far as I remember there were both female and male versions.

Ultimately, I need it for a spoken word recording of a female in English. (none of the girls around seem to have any convincing accent(((

So I'll have to model that. If I can get my hands on it

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:00 am
by Sartori
Vocaloid Lola (lady) and Leon (lad) are the ones you're looking for, I think. I'm not sure how good they'd be for straight speech synthesis, if that's what you're looking for... maybe worth looking at nonmusical ones?

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:06 am
by forge
I dont know how they've progressed but they were a bit of a flop

might be vaguely useful for backing vox, but take some working

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:14 am
by 4.33
ditto)) thanks!

what are the nonmusical ones?

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:22 am
by aisling
forge wrote:I dont know how they've progressed but they were a bit of a flop

might be vaguely useful for backing vox, but take some working
:oops: :oops: I am embarrassed to say I own voice modeler from TC-Powecore.....
Nothing you can't do on your own with eq and such.

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:40 am
by 3dot...
I think Melodyne is the best you can get for this...

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:49 am
by forge
3dot... wrote:I think Melodyne is the best you can get for this...
not the same thing

Melodyne is for correcting real vox - he was asking about typing in words and having the machine sing it which is vocaloid

melodyne is great - althought the 2.6 version I have used to be very unstable

I havent tried v3

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:08 pm
by 4.33
Melodyne can't tweak my baritone to anything close to a nice chick sound=)

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:22 pm
by 3dot...
4.33 wrote:Melodyne can't tweak my baritone to anything close to a nice chick sound=)
oops...
In that case just use... 'shit talker' for the voice...

And use live's clip envelopes to tweak tha pitch...

Might not be ideal ...might not sound Natural...

but I promise you very cool results... and I find shit talker to be tons of fun!!!

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:27 pm
by 4.33
yea I'm a long term fan of the shittalk)))

however that's not really what i'm up to)))

even with the formant filter in Melodyne it didn't do the trick

oh well

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:40 pm
by polyslax
Cantor?

I don't think you'll get ultra-realistic, but...

I think East-West makes a choir like this as well.

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:18 pm
by beats me
Probably not what you are looking for, but the AT&T site (yeah the phone company) has a page where you can type in sentences and it will speak them for you. I think there are even multiple voices you can choose from. It's not meant for vocals but for company automated phone messages. Sorry I don't have the direct link but my friend has used it with some entertaining results.

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:38 pm
by DarkMatter
oops. edited because i posted in the wrong thread

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:05 pm
by 4.33
beats me, damn! that's exactly what i'm after!
i turned their sites upside down but i cant find it(((((((((
could you possibly bother your friend, maybe he still got the link?

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:14 pm
by 4.33
I FOUND IT 8O

http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/

beats me, I owe you a beer!