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Hi Frank, thanks for your helpful remark...<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><div>Am 07.04.2008 um 12:57 schrieb Frank Barknecht:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hallo,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Luigi Rensinghoff hat gesagt: // Luigi Rensinghoff wrote:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I came across that email, when i searched the archive list for voice-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">synths for PD.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For a Project i would like to have a synthesized "singing" voice.</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">VOSIM is the name of a very basic algorithm for formant synthesis. I</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">posted an abstraction which does classical VOSIM a while ago called</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">vosim~.pd. To make it sing or speak, some more work is needed, </div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Would you mind posting it again ???</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Well, i dont want it to really "sing", i would just like to have some "human-like" - sounds..that</div><div>are "synthesized" ... lets say "vocaloid"-formant sounds</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>i tried "flite", but thats to much "spoken" for my needs</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">however, and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">you may be better of with some of the readymade speech synthesis</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">objects by Bryan.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Yes i saw that "vosim" patch mentioned, but i think it is not accessible anymore in the pd-archive...</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Concerning [paf~], the readme tells that it is a Percussion Detector ??</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Which README??</div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>CVS-externals/by-author/tgrill/pd/extra/paf~ </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>contents:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>----------------</div><div><div>Paf is copyright (C) 1999 Miller Puckette.</div><div>Permission is granted to use this software for any purpose, commercial</div><div>or noncommercial, as long as this notice is included with all copies.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>NEITHER THE AUTHORS NOR THEIR EMPLOYERS MAKE ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,</div><div>IN CONNECTION WITH THIS SOFTWARE!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>This is the README file for the "paf" percussion detector. This software</div><div>is available from <a href="http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~msp">http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~msp</a> as part of the "toys"</div><div>library. - <a href="mailto:msp@ucsd.edu">msp@ucsd.edu</a></div></div><div>------------------</div><div><br></div><div>have a nice day...</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>bye</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">paf~ as I know it it also a formant synthesis object (PAF for</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"phase-aligned formants"). For patent reasons it's not part of Pd ATM.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It will probably come back when the patent expires (in 2010?). Check</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Miller's book for a description of the algorithm and a slightly</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">limited implementation as an abstraction is part of the docs.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ciao</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Frank Barknecht <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>_ ______footils.org__</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:PD-list@iem.at">PD-list@iem.at</a> mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div>>---------------------------------------<</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Luigi Rensinghoff</div><div><a href="mailto:luigi.rensinghoff@freenet.de">luigi.rensinghoff@freenet.de</a></div><div><a href="skype:gigischinke">skype:gigischinke</a></div><div><a href="ichat:gigicarlo">ichat:gigicarlo</a></div><div><br></div></div></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>