From Mark Barton Sent Tue, Dec 1st 1998, 09:31
From Mark Barton Sent Tue, Dec 1st 1998, 09:31
>>Someone correct me if I'm wrong but in addition to the 'whisper' voice on >>the Mac there is also one that sounds like Hawking's vocoder thing; in >>fact I believe it's even called 'Hawking'...but Warp artists do seem to >>have a thing for the 'whisper' voice- it's on the warp-net site! > >There are some that sound close, but Ive never seen a 'hawking' voice in >my 12 years of Mac use. There may be one, but Ive never seen it in any >standard Speech Manager installs. >FWIW "Ralph" or "Fred" can sound close if you tweak them enough. the stephen hawking ' voice ' is generated by a program called ' DecTalk ' - i downloaded a demo copy of it the other week from http://www.ultranet.com/~rongemma/index.htm - there ' s loads of fun to be had with it ! hope this is of some use mark b .