Cepstral Text to Speech

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/cepstral-text-speech

A line of natural sounding text to speech voices that plugs right into Mac OS X on PowerPC and Intel systems. Useful if you have a low-end G3 or a low-end G4 Mac computer that only has a limited

#macgarden #AudioPlugins #MusicSound #2010 #Cepstral

in #starTrek #returntotomorrow the Enterprise hears #Sargon, a voice from a long dead planet ... To me this is like the voice of #classicalmusic or any of the #cultures that are swept away but that some of us still hear a call from - I'm using a vocoder modulating an orchestral texture - a #cepstral #vocoder to be specific! #supercollider

Useful: A Practical Guide to Calculating Cepstral Peak Prominence in Praat by Elizabeth S.Heller Murray; Andie Chao & Lauren Colletti

"CPP is the recommended acoustic measure of dysphonia, replacing previously relied upon perturbation measures (jitter and shimmer)."

https://osf.io/yvp4s/

Praat CPP plugin here - Cepstral Peak Prominence - Praat with and without voice detection

https://osf.io/t5hrv/

with some videos on how to add the plugin to Praat.

#Cepstral #Peak #Prominence #Praat

@Ricardus For Sargon I'm just using some fancy #vocoder #fft patches (using #cepstral analysis!) but trying to figure out how to do voices for the ppl!