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From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill)
Subject: Re: Synthesised singing
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In article <9400411.7766@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> bromage@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew James BROMAGE) writes:
>I'd like to know if anyone has ever thought of synthesised a human voice
>singing? Has anyone tried it out and how did it turn out?
>
>I thought of it, but I can't afford to record my own phonemes and the
>ones available have pitch inflections. (I don't know if that's the
>correct term, but you understand what I mean.)
>
>Post or email, I don't care.
>
>Thanks,
>Andrew Bromage
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>Andrew Bromage			| "When the going gets weird, the 
>				|  weird turn pro." 
>bromage@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au	|	- Dr Hunter S Thompson 
>bromage@ecr.mu.oz.au		|   X <- You are here 
>If any opinions expressed here match those of the University of
>Melbourne, I'll sue them for plagiarism.

If you need a basic introduction to speech synthesis, there's Ian Witten's
book "Principles of Computer Speech" (Academic Press 1982), and Allen,
Hunnicutt and Klatt's book "From text to speech: the MITalk system"
Cambridge University Press 1987.

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