SID Speaking Realtime on a C64

MIDIbox SID
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Hello here is something that might be of interrest for the upcoming MIDIBOX SID V2

Look here for a small 4k C64 Demo with Realtime Formant Speech Synthesis! Based on the

Klatt Speech Synthesizer

www.c64.sk

ftp://ftp2.untergrund.net/breakpoint/2007/C64_demo/BP07-Demo.d64

This might be some funnie thing to add to the new MIDIBOX SID.

Enjoy watching… Runs on WIN VICE (www.viceteam.org)

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Here I present you the link to a page where you can grab the Sourcecode of the SID Speech Synthesizer,

maybe someone can port this to the PIC Processor so we can use it with the MIDIBox SID  :wink:

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=48099

and the DEMO for watching and especially listening

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=48042

;D

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While at it, why not check out Viznut’s speech synth on Atari 2600 and VIC-20 :wink: ..

Robotic Liberation (VIC-20)

http://www.pelulamu.net/pwp/vic20/pwp-liberation.zip <- demo exe

http://www.pelulamu.net/pwp/vic20/pwp-liberation.ogg <- song

http://www.pelulamu.net/pwp/vic20/pwp-liberation.lyrics <- lyrics in case you can read :wink:

http://www.pelulamu.net/pwp/vic20/pwp-liberation.mpeg <- video grab of the exe

(Core) (Atari 2600)

http://www.uta.fi/~vp79799/core_by_wAMMA.zip <- demo exe

ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/mirrors/breakpoint/2007/RealWild/BP07_RealWild_wamma_and_pwp_core_XViD.avi <-video grab of exe

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Yep that were Really cool examples, and that’s why I thought about porting this C64 code to the PIC because our Speech System don’t uses Samples only the 3 SID VCOs and therefore it doesn’t need so much cpu Time for generating Speech…

So my Idea for this is to use one SID for Singing in Robotic Voice and another SID for the Music or something like that  8)

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So my Idea for this is to use one SID for Singing in Robotic Voice and another SID for the Music

you know that there’s a MIDIbox speakJet project?

see userProjects -> SpeakJet (Forum and/or Wiki)

Regards,

Michael

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Yep I know and the audio examples are also nice… but what speaks against it to use the SID also for Talking Singing and so on?

The thing that annoys me about the speakerjet is that you have at the moment an extra RS232 connection to a PC for the letters to speak…

I think it would be better to make a MIDI Note to Letter conversion…

Like pressing on the MIDI Keyboard C-1 and let it SAY ‘AAAAAA’

Or let it say ‘AAAA’ when a controller ist set to the desired value and controlling the pitch with the keys…

while thinking about it … controller would be the better solution…

But thats only my thought…  :wink:

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The thing that annoys me about the speakerjet is that you have at the moment an extra RS232 connection to a PC for the letters to speak…

I think it would be better to make a MIDI Note to Letter conversion…

Generally speaking, there’s (nearly) everything possible by MIDI with the MB SpeakJet Application (kII) what you can do with the Phrase-A-Lator by RS232. Theoretically you don’t need no RS232 at all.

Anyway, don’t want to hijack this topic, I just mentioned it in case you haven’t heard about…

Regards,

Michael