Speech?

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Does anyone think that this would be possible to port to Pokitto?

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Phew!

You had me worried there. Usually, when someone says ā€œSpeech?ā€ it means I have to stand up and make a fool of myself in a social occasion. :joy:

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how good/bad is it?

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A bit more robotic than the intellivoice, but plenty of documentation for making it sound different.

Intellivoice had 2kb of samples in ROM, not sure we can do that.

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(Itā€™s possible to port a speech synthesizer to a piano.)

Sounds awesome :slight_smile:

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I did that with a midi converter about 20 years ago, fun, but terrible.

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Problem is itā€™s abandonware :confused: The only open speech synth I know is espeak. Itā€™s pretty compact, but still might be too complex for Pokitto (havenā€™t studied it). How about writing a super tiny original synth for Pokitto, and make it port-friendly for other platforms too?

There are techniques for sampleless speech synthesis right? (I donā€™t have much knowledge in this field, but from learning about vocoders at school I remember some speech models based on resonators that basically only require storing a few coefficients?)

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Pretty sure someone ported this to Arduboy, so Iā€™d say by logic of processor power that the answer is ā€˜yesā€™.

If not, just port this to Pokitto: