Rhetorical rVoice is a professional speech synthesis system - they build voices for artificial call centres and the like.
Their demo page is perfect for generating, say,
an earnest Spanish gentleman rapping 'Bring The Noise' [100k mp3], or
a stoned valley girl doing 'Night of the Living Bassheads' [160k mp3]. If you're hunting for Radiohead/ Kraftwerk/ Hawking robot voices, then you'll have to look elsewhere.
This is absolutely perfect for creating custom scripted movie type samples for Industrial tracks.
ReplyDeletealso perfect for a prank I'm in the middle of - we've kidnapped a mannikin a co-worker keeps in her office, and we need to call her with our demands.
ReplyDeleteI was going to record a prepared speech and vocode it, but this will work much better, since there's no chance of her recognizing my voice....
theres a very big drum and bass tune called "floodlight" by dj fresh that uses the "valley girl" voice....
ReplyDelete(http://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/sounds/cat5548.asf for audio)