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Yukkuri text-to-speech

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    dingo

    So a while back there was some discussion about making txt-to-speech using shell commands, which greatly interested me. So I made a webpage out of the concept featuring the infamous Yukkuri, unoriginally dubbed Yukkuri Talk.

    http://kdingo.homelinux.net:8280/~dingo/yukkuritalk/

    PHP Source: http://pastie.org/private/gxk9o87lpwrslhcttsd17q

    I used the AquesTalk library from a-quest for the yukkuri voice, NKF for SJIS/UTF-8 conversion, and kakasi for kanji -> kana conversion (since AquesTalk only handles kana/romaji), and http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/ for the English->Japanese translation.

    And no, I did not pay the 15,000 yen for the AquesTalk license. I got a free two-week license which I signed up for on their website.

    Yukkuri Talk does not handle stuff like names well, mostly because Excite does not convert them into Japanese, which is essential for the whole thing to work.

    I'm hoping this little project could be worth at least 1 min of entertainment.. xD Or maybe the code/wavs can be used for other things no one has made yet. Have fun with the source. Sorry it's messy. Let me know if anyone wants help rolling out their own.

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    Artefact

    So how do the yukkuri MADs on Nico make their speech?

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    dingo

    I figure they use SofTalk, a free Windows-only program. It lets you export the speech into wav. It's based on the same library.

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    BuggyBY

    You win several internets. Thank you. I loved inputting the following two lines:
    中国と呼ばないで？私、名前わ紅美鈴。
    違うよ。くれないみすずなんかじゃないよ。ほんめいりんですよ、ほんめいりん。

    Also "F O E, F O E" in katakana worked beautifully. :D

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    Crunchbanger

    anyone seen this? It's pretty awesome yukkuloid! :p

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    BuggyBY

    The yukkuloid is indeed brilliant. I never knew that such a basic synthesizer could be made to sing with such a haunting voice ...

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    dingo

    Nice. When it comes to singing yukkuri, this is my favorite.

    I'm sure there's more than one way to make a yukkuri sing, but this one took my interest. Something called Melodyne Uno. It's pretty advanced stuff- where you can change individual notes in a recording as if it were a MIDI file. I'm not sure if this nico vid uses it, but there are nico videos that do say specifically that Melodyne is used.

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    MV

    Oh wow. This is awesome. How did I miss this? Good job, man.

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