Article:		Sneaky Tricks for Speech Synthesizers
Subject:		My Favorite Voice Synth
Date:		2006-10-05 09:04:00
From:		ZuluMan
I use S**t Talker version 1.2. Though it was originally conceived for making prank phone calls (!), I just use it for the many synthesised high-quality voices availiable. You can select a preset voice and then modify it to make literally thousands of voices! And it's FREE!!! I use Total Recorder to render the voice to a file, since it does not have that capability itself. Works under Windows only. :(

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• My Favorite Voice Synth
  2006-10-05 10:33:55  David Battino | [View]
  
  
  Thanks! The home page is http://www.unaesthetic.net/st/ (there are no asterisks in the actual program name). I love the installer — “Thank you for downloading Sh!t-Talker v1.2 by: jaundice, Ya Creep!”
  
  It’s actually a front end for another program called DocTalker; it works by remotely pasting text from a button into DocTalker and clicking the “Test” button. The buttons sometimes took several presses to work for me, but I found I could also type directly into DocTalker. I wouldn’t call the speech synth realistic, but it has some fantastic cartoony voices, like The Fly and Fast Fred. Great find!
  
  
• My Favorite Voice Synth
  2006-10-05 11:15:55  David Battino | [View]
  
  
  Looks like DocTalker is based on SoftVoice Text2Speech, because the voices are the same. Interesting background here: http://www.text2speech.com