Hey guys!
 
Anyone know of any free text to speech programs that are available?
 
Want to add like a robot (but not to computerised) speech at the start of a song, but cant find anything :(
 
anyone know of anywhere that i can type in text and record the speech it translates it into? :)
 
Thanks
 
Zeano

Google is your friend."Text to speech" gave a couple of results. I assume it's english language version you're looking for?

http://www.naturalreaders.com/download.php

BUT...recording the speech is another thing. You need a separate plugin for that, I think, if your soundcard does not have "What you hear"-setting. IIRC, there are several (free) recorder-plugins, but I've never needed one, so I can't recommend anything.

Then again, there are many free vocoders, as well.

Thank you for your reply.

I did try google, but stumbled upon that i could not record the actual speech without having to purchase a product. Which for about 4 lines of vocals i dont want to spend £50 :(

have you considered the free TAL vocoder?

Maybe someone could reccommend me a good free vocoder? :)

ok just downloaded Tal. when turning it on in the effects channel it mutes the audio track sound? and when i turning it off my original sound will play again???

please check my previous post ;-) guess you have overlooked it...

Zeano182


Thank you for your reply.

I did try google, but stumbled upon that i could not record the actual speech without having to purchase a product. Which for about 4 lines of vocals i dont want to spend £50 :(

If you want to stick to text2speech you could try this for the recording. There are others, too.
 
http://hgsounds.com/product/hgs-wav-recorder-vst-plugin/
 
The above mentioned TAL is quite a good vocoder.

  i believe the best idea here to add an extra track for the vocoder speech

Ok just got tal working, and it seems to really cheapen the vocal sound, from a really clean quality signal it sounds like i recorded it on a £5 mic at the other side of the room, lol. I know im probably doing your guys heads in, but i just want to sound like a human robot!!!! :P

Zeano