Formant Speech Synthesis

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mridlen
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Formant Speech Synthesis

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Does anybody know about speech synthesis? I would like to create speech synthesis, but I don't know the correct elements required to construct one within Buzz. I'm having a tough time creating certain sounds. I have been using the formant filters in Philthy, a synthesizer, and a whitenoise generator, but I'm not sure if I'm missing anything. I'm hoping the expert Buzz devs can point me in the right direction. :)
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Well there is this which has a section for speech synthesis, but I've never worked out how the hell you're meant to use it :lol: http://www.buzzmachines.com/machineinfo.php?id=926
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german example here 8-) :

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=65#p479

V2 seems to be problematic with newer buzz builds and recent windows os though.
working fine here with winxp and buzz bld 1481
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Yes unfortunately V2 is not an option for me.

My goal is to create a system from scratch using only synthesizers and effects (not specialized speech synthesis).
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ah, reinventing the wheel :?: :!: ;)

what about rectal anarchy ?
http://www.buzzmachines.com/machineinfo.php?id=453

i guess you know this article:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar01/a ... nthsec.asp

... and this little app:
http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/formant/

ah ... and the weed effect in dt block fx
"removes frequency components above (Value < 0.5) or below (Value > 0.5) a particular level"
http://www.buzzmachines.com/machineinfo.php?id=818
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Kyrie has great formant filter, i always use it for choir or funny speech.
Open peerstate and try presets
kyrie_speech.zip
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I think that sound on sound article might be what I'm looking for. Thanks everyone for the suggestions... I'll be in the lab now :twisted:
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My end goal is a playable speech synthesizer like a voder, although I don't think I can get it to be as expressive.

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/ ... nthesizer/
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