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I want the really low sounding voice from the infamous(2 kids died getting highest scores)... arcade game Berzerk for my robot. I actually have all 30 words from the Mame emulator program but they are all the same tone and pitch normal mid range pitch.The original arcade game was able to vary the pitch up high and low randomly in the game which made the robots sound really evil. I was actually reading the comments from the guy who programmed the game at Stern electronics back in 1980(he chats with everyone on youtube today still) Not sure if he was joking but he said back in 1980 voice synthesis was really new and expensive,his game had 30 words and each word was a separate micro chip that cost $8000.00 each! Berzerk was the first talking arcade machine! Does anyone know if it is possible to change the voice pitch up or down in the windows EZ builder?I did figure out how to add different beeping sounds at different pitches but to do that with the voices would be cool,really love the low deep darth vader pitch from the game!Possibly is there a free voice reader text to speech emulator that could simulate this? The "david" I use now is not good for a robot voice from the windows 10 speech reader. tired
"OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS AL!"
http://sounds.stoutman.com/sounds.php?Category=HAL%209000
Or course one of my old school fav's...
Have you seen this site?
http://www.text2speech.org/ It lets you input text and create wav or mp3 files for download. The default male sounds 80's ish to.
Another thing to check out is Speakonia, it provides an old 80's style text to speech with an option to create wave files and it is free. You can download the program from Cnet here: http://download.cnet.com/Speakonia/3000-7239_4-10125328.html
The CFS Technologies homepage has up the license key needed to unlock the create a wav file feature. http://www.cfs-technologies.com/home/
I just used it to created some Short Circuit robot sound files because I think the American Voice #1 sounds spot on for the none "alive" Johnny five SAINT robot voices.
Ha ha thanks guys for all the Links but getting near a Darth vader type voice was more what i like for my robot (with a slight cylon echo effect)so I will try to stay away from most TTS voices ,I will be making my own custom voices using the Cylonix vocoder which has so many cool effects and can be used in real time if I want to just send my own voice through microphone and instantly have it come out the robot,it seems to work in win10 but is not finding my audio input yet,will try to figure out why as it will work from winxp all the way to win7 and even vista it can be still found at cylonix.com under the windows software. https://cylonix.com/windows_vocoder.html
Edit----So I tried my old win7 laptop with the Cylonix program and I had CNN news playing on the internet with that Wolf Blitzer reporter in real time it was changing Wolf's voice talking just like a Cylon from that old 70's Galactica tv series! this is too much fun!
Good threat....I like a discussion about how different builders implement voice features to their robots! There is always a new idea coming up...or two!