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- > How do I save a certain sentence of speech (from the say command)
- > out as an IFF sample?
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- I think you are confusing the two...
-
- The Say command uses a synthetic speech system to actually speak
- the words you enter in a string. Due to the fact that the speech is
- entirely synthetic based on vocal sounds/phonetics the quality is
- obviously poor compared to that of an actual human (well most humans
- anyway).
-
- An IFF sample is produced by actually recording a sound. This sound
- can be anything from a bird chirping to a person speaking. Due to
- the sound-data being record in real-time and stored in digital format,
- the sound quality is entirely dependant upon the frequency of the
- sampling rate. Personally, I have found that a frequency of 11,000-
- 12,000K captures speech at a quality good enough for use in
- games and such.
-
- You can hear such speech (recorded at 11,500K) in the SideShooter
- Demo6 which is currently available from the CBATNAM webpage...
-
-
- Anyway, I can't quite see why you would want to convert the
- synthetic speech to a sample, but I assume it is because you do not
- have access to a sound-sampler correct?
-
- If this is the case, just e-mail me a list of the speech samples you
- need and I will record a few for you. The quality will be MUCH better
- and I don't know how you could convert the Synthetic speech to a
- sample as I have never tried to do this before.
-
- Of course, it's certainly possible (nearly everything is) and if you had
- a thorough understanding of the narrator.device then you could
- probably grab each word as the data was being passed to Paula. A
- better method might be to create your own synthetic speech system,
- but unless you have a tremendous interest in this sort of thing, you'd
- be better off just having the speech sampled...
-
-
- Take care,
- GARFIELD
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