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Re:The Voder, the First Machine to Create Human Speech by guiomie on Friday January 20, 2017 @03:53PM (#13446902)
I really enjoyed the video linked in the article. I wasn't sure what to expect, I found the Voder "voice" slightly creepy. Sadly I could not find an emulator or tool online to input text and get a Voder audio output.
Re:The Voder, the First Machine to Create Human Speech by khedoros1 on Friday January 20, 2017 @05:59PM (#13447660)
> Sadly I could not find an emulator or tool online to input text and get a Voder audio output.

It seems like you'd need samples of the individual sound channels from the machine, and then a program to map the text to timed signals to produce the different sounds, along with pitch shifts, etc. Something similar to MIDI, maybe (vibrato, pitch shift, and the different sounds as different instrument numbers seems like it would work).

Re:The Voder, the First Machine to Create Human Speech by JoeDaDude on Friday January 20, 2017 @09:08PM (#13448383)
Part of the charm of the machine is the control the operator has to give inflections, tone, and timing. I think a text-to-voder emulator would miss a lot of the variation heard in the demo and would instead sound stale and less lifelike.