Hi. I think they got keynote gold to sing by actually interfacing to the synthesizer itself. I know the pitch commands for it, but unfortunately, it doesn't work on the braille companion, at least. Then again, they could have used the keynote multimedia player and sound editing, but that's not available anymore. Ortheus can also sing, but to get that, you need to get hal. If you get the eloquence download from www.freedomscientific.com, you get an eloquence demo similar to the dectalk one, which could be interfaced so it sings, if you concatenated sounds together. You'd need to do that because eloquence pauses for a while during commands to change pitch. Hope this helps. Regards, Graham Pearce Email: lpp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Msn: graham12345@xxxxxxxxxxx Web site: www.anycities.com/graham43 -----Original Message----- From: dectalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dectalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stephen Clower Sent: Sunday, 30 March 2003 11:34 PM To: dectalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [DECtalk], Re: Singing synthesizers Not really. The old TrueVoice engine could sing, as could Text Assist, but they both utilized the DECTalk format for phonemics, and both are hard to find these days and sound like crap when they sing! I'm not quite sure how they got the keynote gold, FlexTalk, and the double talk to sing though. At 04:34 PM 3/30/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Hello listers, >I'm just curious, are there any other accessible singing synthesizers = >out there except Dectalk? I suppose there are, since I've heared a few = >once on the Dectalk file archive. >Best regards, >Christian > >--- >the DECtalk list. >To unsubscribe, send a blank message to: >dectalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >and type >unsubscribe >in the subject field. >Moderators email: >shwatscoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >this list's homePage, and the unoficial DECtalk page is at, >//www.freelists.org/webpage/dectalk --- the DECtalk list. To unsubscribe, send a blank message to: dectalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and type unsubscribe in the subject field. Moderators email: shwatscoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx this list's homePage, and the unoficial DECtalk page is at, //www.freelists.org/webpage/dectalk --- the DECtalk list. To unsubscribe, send a blank message to: dectalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and type unsubscribe in the subject field. Moderators email: shwatscoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx this list's homePage, and the unoficial DECtalk page is at, //www.freelists.org/webpage/dectalk