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nosys70

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« on: December 16, 2005, 04:43:15 am »
I am currently trying to bring together components to generate voice with lipsync for the haptek characters (web use).
I purchased the 12 voices from ATT (best ratio price/quality).
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/
The best would be loquendo, but i receive a phone call from the representative and he his asking 4000$ pervoice and per year ?!!.
Cepstral are bout same price than ATT but, in my opinion less good, but i could eventually purchase them also.
I will use a cheap and nice
product called ActiveTTS (http://www.guangmingsoft.net/activetts/ )
 that lets you write a Text to wav files in almost any language.
The last step is the Hap Ogg factory that is supposed to convert the wav to ogg with lip sync.
does anybody has this converter so i can test it (before purchase) to make such this workflow is ok.
We could even share the effort and cost, so i can provide a simple form that anybody can use.
the form would include a field for text to convert, language needed, eventually the format (mp3, wav ogg, ogg+lips, lipsync only) and the voice (male/female)
and return the link the file, so you can have your character speaks.
« Last Edit: December 16, 2005, 05:03:58 am by nosys70 »
 

Dr.Benway

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« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2005, 06:15:04 am »
People Putty has a built-in .wav to .ogg-converter. Haptek characters should also be able to speak .spx sound files when they are accompanied by a matching .phn-file.

nosys70

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« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2005, 10:52:51 am »
I know this already, so unless you are able to produce lipsynched ogg files or phn files on the fly your information does not really help.
i want to be able to produce answer in several languages on-line.
the goal is to provide thousand of sentences by swapping synonyms on a model, so if you ask something, you never get exactly the same answer.
you can also introduce variation in sentence (like punctuation, silences etc...)
« Last Edit: December 16, 2005, 11:03:01 am by nosys70 »
 

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« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2005, 09:07:25 pm »
How about that for a thanks anyway, Doc!?

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« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2005, 02:58:20 am »
sorry , my fault , i often forget to close the bottom of my messages.
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thanks anyway
 

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« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2005, 08:25:37 am »
No problem [:)].

I find your idea interesting and I have pondered about things like this in the past as well. I have never heard of anyone buying the Hap Ogg factory, but I have heard of people waiting endlessly before they were even allowed to order one of the Haptek tools. You probably also have to sign a contract to use the tool. So all alternatives are worth considering I think.
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« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2005, 09:36:49 am »
i wrote to haptek and get in return their price list, so obviously
they sell it (it is 100$ not really expensive).
then i will order it and see what happens.