Text To Speech

Text To Speech

I would like to add “winnipeg” the city i’m playing in right before the break starts in this song:

at about the 2:50 mark. So it would have the effect of: Winnipeg ARE YOU READY? Not sure if the mac speech to voice stuff will do for this one. I think it needs something sounding a little more professional. Any idea where I could get this? Thanks! :slight_smile:

try this http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php#top

That still seems to unnatural to me. Like you can clearly tell that it was a computer that did it and it would really stick out if i played the song.

A lot of them are like that unfortunately. Your best bet is probably to just use a mic or use your headphones as a mic if you don’t have one.

Btw i’ve played in winnipeg a few times + brought some winnipeg djs down to play here, you guys have a great scene :smiley:

Haha ya for a small town we’ve got a great scene. What’s it like in Regina?

record yourself

Its alright, not very consistent but there have been some good nights here. Saskatoon is a lot better and its only 2 hours away

I would go with the synthetic voice vibe with a Benny Benassi kind of sound. I hate talking into a mic due to my stu..stu…stu…stutter. So I would always find ways around it. I would usually prerecord radio “drops” using apple voice tts recorded with audio hijack and then put through Ableton efx like beat repeat, pitch shift and delay. I didn’t have traktor then so I would use a cdj with the different drops on each track. I would assume that would unnecessary with traktor and remix decks. You could even have them synced.

another option is look for samples of people saying/shouting winnipeg then cut them up if you have to then add some effects to it to make it more natural sounding like maybe a sprinkle of reverb or something

Or teach a dog to be your hype man. Just get that husky that says “I love you”.