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Does anyone know of any VST or even online Web app that I can use to type in various workd to get a Robot Voice effect. Ive seen such things on inferior software such as Fruity Loops but cant seem to find what im looking for any help would be much appreciated... First time using this site..

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Keir

there are tons of standalone apps out there... not sure about vst... and i'm done googling for ppl... just look around.. i use fl7 and i contend that it is far from inferior to ableton live. if i'm not mistaken i think you might be able run fl as a vst in live..

A well-established open source TTS system is Festival:

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

There are online demos on this site but these really are just for demonstration purposes. The files produced aren't licensed for non-private use, so as to prevent excessive usage. Yet festival itself is under an open license, so once it is installed it can be used for recordings etc (not that this is legal advice, of course -- I would recommend checking the license!).

Installing festival is easy if you are a Unix user. Now everyone should have access to Linux or Mac OS X, in my humble opinion :wink:. But if not, then you can get Festival on M$ Windows by first installing the Unix-like environment called Cygwin, from http://www.cygwin.com/

Then the installation steps are here:

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cstr/lists.cgi?config=festival_faq&entry=installing_festival

Cygwin itself is well worth having -- it opens up the open source world of Unix applications to the M$ platform.

try eSpeak for Windows
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ licensed under GNU free copyleft license

it's a command line sw, no graphic interface but easy enough. there are many different voices -
although the Festival online demo propose smoother and more realistic voices.

about the robot effect in Ableton Live, try Audio Effect/Resonators/Rome or Tokyo or Brooklyn applied to the spoken text.
I too use Live: if you find something for TTS post it, please :wink:

you should check out freeTTS. written entirely in Java so it works on most platforms.

freetts.sourceforge.net

Can transfrom regular speech into robot, e.g ... http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=71495

it is difficult to get speech synthesis to have the correct meter & inflection ... http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=78002

hmmm In terms of FL being inferior you follow a population of people that all think the SAME dam/|/ thing! Microsoft (For windows fiends of XP came with SAM) and also there is Text to Speech which is pretty cool, But I would sat Espeak is awesome! I don;t know man the whole computer talking to you thing makes me paranoid..... and you can use FL as a vst should you choose. and cajo.... the tokyo effect is def. the best!

Use AnalogX Sayit or any other of the countless free stand alone and online TTS programs.

Create the phrase in a wav file. Chop it up in your editor to get the timing correct and resave the file if needed.

Load the file up into Madshifta VST and play the voice tonally however you wish.

You can use the keyboard or MIDI in to raise or lower the pitch of the speech as needed.

You could also run it through Gsnap for some strange unnatural verbal strangeness.

You can have it sing along to your music or add whatever inflection or effect you want.

stickman
there are tons of standalone apps out there... not sure about vst... and i'm done googling for ppl... just look around.. i use fl7 and i contend that it is far from inferior to ableton live. if i'm not mistaken i think you might be able run fl as a vst in live..

yep, you can do that .. this is a good way to use the FL studio plugins which don't work outside FL studio normally.. once FL is hosted as VST you can benefit from all the great stuff that FL Studio offers.