Propeller Speech Synthesis

Android

Hi everyone. I am synthesizing speech with a veho 360 speaker and prop boe and wanted to know if there was any way to make the speech sound more human like. Anything helps.
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Mike Green

Often "tuning" the phoneme streams will result in more natural sounding speech. You have to fiddle with the phonemes you're using.

Android

Hi Mike. I am not sure what the phonemes are. I learned what I do know from this link http://learn.parallax.com/node/248 but am just plugging in my own phrases using this program

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long Stack[32]


CON

_clkmode = xtal1 + pll16x
_xinfreq = 5_000_000

sound_port = 26

OBJ

t : "talk"
PUB start
t.start(sound_port)
t.set_speaker(0, 90)
t.set_speaker(1, 110)
t.set_speaker(2, 100)

t.say(string("helloa"))

Android

Could you point out what the phonemes are in this?

Mike Green

talk.spin is an object that translates phonemes into parameters for Chip's vocal tract synthesizer. The strings that you supply to the talk object are actually phonemes (basic units of speech) although for some words, they look similar to the words themselves. Thus, "helloa" looks like "hello", but a terminal "o" often is said with two phonemes, "o" followed by "a". For more information, look at the source code of talk.spin and start here in the Wikipedia.

Android

Thank you so much Mike! The wikipedia article was very helpful.
-Android