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« on: February 23, 2009, 04:05:45 AM »

You know those text to speech programs?  Does anyone have any idea how I can read comments from my (MySQL database driven) chatbox and get them aired via text to speech on air.

I'd quite like to allow random comments to be read out....even if people have ideas how any text can be turned dynamically into speech for on air - i'm happy to try and work out a way to get the chatbox to work with it.
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« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2009, 05:42:05 PM »

Sounds like an interesting project.  Only thing I could think of would be to use one of those text to speech sites and just manually do it?  Are there any scripts to automate it?
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« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2009, 04:46:29 PM »

I've never heard of anything like this I'm afraid.  I'm sure you could get someone to create from (hire a freelancer style sites), but I wouldn't expect it to be a cheap addition to the site.

I think it could be quite risky (rude comments, spam on air, etc).  I wouldn't want to run it myself, though with a good computerised voice (or a realistic one), you could in theory run a computerised show and make it sound like real people talking Tongue.
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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2009, 06:27:46 PM »

There used to be a live show called the r33tcast that did this. I think it was also turned into a podcast which you can probably still find online somewhere.
Each different name in the shoutbox had a slightly different pitched computer voice to distinguish it.
It worked quite well, but synthesised speech can be difficult to understand at the best of times - particularly if people are using abbreviations, slang or txtspk etc.
My biggest concern would be having no control over whats transmitted. But definitely a nice idea.

I'm currently playing with a Flash app to let people leave voice messages thru a webpage (much the same way as you stream your webcam to stickam etc) and have the clips incorporated into the show. It still requires screening but is much simpler to implement.
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2009, 01:58:48 AM »

There used to be a live show called the r33tcast that did this. I think it was also turned into a podcast which you can probably still find online somewhere.
Each different name in the shoutbox had a slightly different pitched computer voice to distinguish it.
It worked quite well, but synthesised speech can be difficult to understand at the best of times - particularly if people are using abbreviations, slang or txtspk etc.
My biggest concern would be having no control over whats transmitted. But definitely a nice idea.

I'm currently playing with a Flash app to let people leave voice messages thru a webpage (much the same way as you stream your webcam to stickam etc) and have the clips incorporated into the show. It still requires screening but is much simpler to implement.

Found it: http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=1803

Seems like it's part spoken with responces via text to speech.

Anyone have any idea how they set it up?
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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2009, 02:03:39 AM »

Anyone have any idea how they set it up?

I'd imagine his IRC client has a text to speech option.  You could in theory run something like that with SHOUTcast, but not a normal chatbox.
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« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2009, 04:09:41 PM »

hmm, I've not had any luck looking for the ability to do this so it might be a pipe dream until I teach my self programming or something Tongue.
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