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Here the situation i m working on some text to add to a song of mine and i need a nice sounding text to speech that give a nice but understandable mechanic or robotic voice in french and english if possible.

i know a lot of text to speech are available but i don't have money to buy them and i don't want to install demo software since this will eventualy slow down my machine.

if you either know of some free voice or if you have commercial software with robotic voice i can give you a link to the text fille in private to have it converted in mp3 or ogg.

you can always use micrsoft sam.

2 critiria you will need though:
1)a record what you hear program
2) Windows XP

if you fit both, go to:

Start -> Control Panel -> Switch To Classic View -> Speech -> And Type What You Want Where It Says "You have selected Microsoft Sam as the computer's default voice" and then hit preview voice, you have control of the speed.

one.

I have Actually tried the Microsoft Sam voice But it wasn’t exactly the perfect robot voice that I was searching for

I could use Microsoft’s Sam voice but I would need to use a vocoder but my computer is not powerfull enough to use that type of fx.

You can get a nice, gritty, robotic voice by using AnalogX SayIt and/or AnalogX Vocoder. SayIt will act as text-to-speech and sounds like a Speak'N'Spell. The Vocoder can take that and make it sound even more "robotic" by taking a carrier noise (I find a square wave works best) and using a speech file, synthesized or spoken, as a modulator.

You can also try AT&T's on-line text-to-speech utility, but that actually sounds fairly realistic at this point, so a more primitive TTS system will yield a more "robotic" quality.

Well thanks Halleck it does help a lot that and the TTS from analogX its come the close to wat i wanted .

i dont know but you may also be right if i could find a old dos base TTS that would be more grity and but where o where could i find such old and obsolet software i will search a bit arround the net.