This was quite amusing. BeSTspeech would work well as a wolf simulator.
@rommix0 how did you do that?
@spacepup Simply used the embedded commands to raise the pitch and lower the speech rate. Nothing else.
@rommix0 ah right, i forgot there are embedded commands
@spacepup indeed
@rommix0 how you been by the way. Playing a game called rhythm doctor, and might make a level here out of one eof my songs
@spacepup It's been okay. I had my fair share of ups and downs. I just recently got back on here after dealing with some stuff.
@rommix0 well i certainly missed you buddy.
@spacepup I missed you guys too. Last year was kinda weird honestly. I'm starting to looking forward to things now.
@rommix0 nice! I made an hmm based speech synthesizer, and i tried to make another one cfombining the concatination of unit selection but with the inflection modelling of diphone. Would you mind telling me about your tts project you're working on?

@spacepup Which one? The formant synthesizer one, or the BestSpeech decompilation project since I'm actually working on both right now.

As far as the formant synthesizer goes, it started out as a freelance project meant to be coded in Rust. In recent months, I've been thinking about getting it over to C as well.

My client has been kinda on and off lately. If things don't pan out with him, I'm going full on in on the C version since per contract I can't just put out the Rust code. That way people can easily create SAPI adapters for it when it's all complete.

@rommix0 the formant synthesizer
@spacepup I figure that's what you meant. Nothing to say much of at the moment, but I'll share you the sound demo of where it's at right now.
@rommix0 oh nice! I like how it sounds right now. I might make my own formant synth also, trying to do my own take on something like votrax, i think that has 3formants but i might get praat and get formant frequencies of my voice. What kind of filter do you use? Gemini wants to do butterworth but i'm not too sure

@spacepup LOL. That AI has no clue what resonators are.

I'm using the classic klatt biquad filter type. Mine uses 3 variable formants with the last 3 being stationary for voice characteristics

@rommix0 ah okay. I'm kinda aiming for that 70s kraftwerk sound if you know what i mean
@spacepup Yeah for sure. Votrax is also formant, so I'm sure using the klatt formulas would work just fine for what you're going for.
@rommix0 I'm the kind of vibecoder that prompts, and thoroughly tests it