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I took some actual Incel posts and I copied them into a word to speech program using the WillFromAfar voice.
This one of the Incel giving the excuse on why he can't look women in the eyes.
And I actually can't find the third one, but it went something like:
> "women are vile, wicked, degraded creatures that are incapable of love. Imagine the countless incels who could have died happier had only women showed them a bit of affection. But women, they're incapable of love."
Incels are weird because, in a community of people advocating rape and women being sold to sweaty 30 year old virgins as living sex toys, they'll jump the gun to say that the only reason they can't attract girls is because of a receding hairline, or a pimple on their chin, or because they wear glasses and not because, you know, they're advocating rape and women being sold to sweaty 30 year old virgins as living sex toys.
It's a generic text-to speech, so not too surprising. It's also in TF2 when he says "WE ARE IN THE BEAM."
Here's the site: http://www.acapela-group.com/demo-tts/DemoHTML5Form_V2.php
The name is WillFromAfar (emotive voice)
This, my boy. Just choose "WillFromAfar".
I actually found it on this site with the voice "WillFromAfar" and plain "Will" is the voice that introduces the lost episodes
Ö is a bit like how you would pronounce "uh". So it would be something like Uh-stir-sund. Try putting it in Acapela's text to speech and listen to it in the Swedish voices there. Some of them seem to have trouble on which part of the word to emphasize, but it does the job.
No it's not. It's bullshit.
> Überraschung, Schmetterling, Kugelschreiber, Gänseblümchen, Krankenwagen, Naturwissenschaften, Nielpferd, Sex, Geschlechtsverkehr, Entschuldigung, Krankenwagen, Aschenputtel, Kanarienvogel, Mähdrescher
And select one of the female voices.
FEATURING SPAZKEED, ONJY, PSYCHICPEBELS AND STAAMPER.
I WAS ONCE FONDLED BY A PENGUIN KINGPIN IN A WIN-WIN SITUATION.
also, for maximum immersion, use http://www.acapela-group.com/demo-tts/DemoHTML5Form_V2.php? and select WillFromAfar
This is awesome. Really glad they put this episode up.
From the title I initially thought a SleepyCabin Lost episode was being linked here. That being said, imagine if this episode's intro was this;
> This is a Game Grumps Lost Episode. With, Ross and Brian. My name is Captain Dickhead. At age six, I was born without a face.
Using the Captain Dickhead voice from this website (WillFromAfar option) to give you an idea of what a Game Grumps Lost Episode would be in SleepyCabin style.
Tuli Aromipesästä mieleen puhuvapää ja tj tj tj tj Aromipesä Aromipesä Aromipesä Aromipesä spämmäys keskipäivän chattiin.
> Olen siirtomaalordi. Voinko käyttää Aromipesää hellekypäränä?
Copy-paste tänne, kieli Italia, puhujana Vittorio.
First leak of 'Fuck Em' was from Hull; the only leak, out of all the 'leaks' (UKF, UMF, Hull, Tripple J 15 min mix, et. al.) which had the 'let the games begin' sample was from Goat and Fire and was only included as it was a premixed set and Gaz wasn't there to MC for the crowd.
Anyway, to answer your question, it's a computer generated voice:
http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html
Not the first time they've used a computer generated voice. Try selecting English (UK) - Lucy and enter 'surely we can be friends'.
I'm pretty sure the 'let the games begin' is a heavily EQ'd synthesized voice. Maybe English (UK) - Graham, try entering: "What's your fucking problem man? you agreed to this a long time ago".
My first complaint is that they way your store spells its name it sounds like you're wanting people to pronounce it "Who-Gah", when that is not really how it is pronounced - it is just how a lot of English speakers incorrectly pronounce it (or try to spell it phonetically). It is close, but it isn't right. If you want to hear it pronounced properly, go to this site, select "Danish" as the language and type "hygge" into the box. You should be able to distinguish the difference.
That's a minor bitch, but there it is.
Two: We here in Denmark use a lot of candles, but the style is much different than the ones that you're selling. While any candle can give off a distinct sense of hygge, I think that the aesthetics of your offerings isn't reflective of what I have seen here.
Three: As far as pillows and blankets go, unless you're going to go with a traditional Scandinavian / Nordic style that stands out, what you're selling is just plain old pillows and cushions. To be fair, that's what you'll find in most homes - but when someone looks at them they don't stand out as Scandinavian at all.
tl;dr. Nothing stands out to be as being very Scandinavian.
These complaints aside I like the concept of what you're doing and wish you well with it, and I hope I was of some help.
It's an emulated voice, like Microsoft Sam. Sleepycabin has nothing to do with it.
Type in anything you want here and choose the voice "WillFromAfar". It's what the guys used for Captain Dickhead's voice.
There are plenty of online resources that are awesome! For pronunciation: Here Also torrent the audio lessons "Pimsleur French 1-3" : Here They are short and conversational/ really help with pronunciation and flow
Verb Practice: Here
If you're willing to pay: www.pronunciator.com is just like rosetta stone!
PM me if you want to practice!
A recent community update (official update, but with content made by the community) added a map called 'Watergate', which instead of the regular announcer, used a text to speech website to make the announcer lines.
When the announcer says 'We are in the beam' it means your current team is delivering beer into a UFO to gain points.
Yep found it thanks you so much!
Its the "WillFromAfar" voice
I believe it was suppost to be with the normal announcer, but V̶a̶l̶v̶e̶ being lazy just shat it out with that announcer. Its called WillFromAfar
Nah it's not, I know he can do a robot voice but it's actually this text to speech. Check this out: It's the will from afar voice
Type "Lyon" after choosing a french voice here
French and English are pretty different so it's way too hard to explain our syllables and pronounciation to an english person, and vice versa in some cases.
To hear how it's supposed to be pronounced, go to the Acapela TTS website, paste the following Arabic text into the text box, select Arabic > Leila and click Listen.
ممكن، من فضلَك، تَدِّيني جواز سفري؟
(In real life there are shorter pauses between the words and the whole sentence is read with rising intonation to mark it as a question.)
BTW, if the speaker is supposed to be Egyptian, change the pronunciation of of the first letter of gawaz to a hard g as in got.
WillFromAfar from here http://www.acapela-group.com
Check out the songs I made with the voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn0_RFn_dPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BStZTSHD8gU
Sips did rough versions of these songs in his last zelda strem.
I absolutely agree. And the BLU Book team really went all-in with the space weirdness, too. There weren't just four decent maps, there were four decent experimental maps which really took advantage of the theme. You had Byre, a two-CP Arena map; 2Fort Invasion, a gorgeous, moody, "straight-upgrade" reskin of TF2's oldest map whose storytelling was unprecedented as far as maps go; Probed, a good KotH map that didn't feel like Viaduct with an interesting L-shaped layout, and which spiced up the experience with an abduction mechanic and a few explosives dotted around the map; and Watergate, the first Player Destruction map, which had you blowing up alien spaceships by depositing beer in a UFO beam and featured WillFromAfar yelling "WE ARE IN THE BEAM!" Truly an unforgettable collection of maps. The terrific intro video, the bizarre cosmetics separated into two cases (which broadened player choice by allowing them to open the case containing more cosmetics they hadn't yet unboxed), the Burstchester taunt, the incredible unusual effects, and four space-themed weapons were just icing upon the cake for an update fueled by its boundary-pushing maps.
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http://www.acapela-group.com/demo-tts/DemoHTML5Form_V2.php
Copy/paste that and pick Willfromafar
I've used this one before in many of my D&D campaigns because I think they've got a more natural sounding voice than oddcast (especially "WillBadGuy"). You can work around timing and inflection problems through sticking in commas or periods to cause the voice to pause, or spell words phonetically to achieve more colloquial pronunciation.
Some English accents would pronounce "frookt shirt" pretty close to fruktkjøtt. The kj is like the h in huge or human, the ø is like the e in bet but with the rounded lips of oo. This excellent text-to-speech engine has several languages including Norwegian: http://www.acapela-group.com
^^^scrolla ^^^ned ^^^lite
Edit: Nej, det var var visst SJ, inte SL. Den du vill åt är nog Linda Norgren.
*The Great Bootleg pukes out Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel*
I didn't create the video, but I found the text to speech of the voice. It is Willfromafar
FYI, I spent waaay too much time last night planning and working on a parody "educational" video where they talk to each other and shit tentatively entitled "The Department of Homeland Security Presents: THE CYBERS". Laughed till I cried. I don't think I'll be releasing anything, but if anybody wants to take a crack at it, there's a good text-to-speech editor here (with "Russian Male" for the guy in the middle here); dramatic soundtrack clips here. lol
There are two approaches to building a speech synthesis system (also known as TTS, text-to-speech).
you record all possible phrases or subsegments of phrases ("turn left at...", "100", "yards" etc)
you record all sounds in the language in all possible contexts.
The first approach is faster to do, and the time needed is just the time taken to make and index all the recordings. However the output sounds robotic and the joins (where segments have been spliced together) are obvious.
The second approach is more generic and takes longer to do. For the case of the voices of Siri it takes about 80 hours of recording. You have to read from a list of very strange sentences such as "Scratching the collar of my neck, where humans once had gills.". This is to make sure you cover all sounds in the language, and also all combinations of 2 or 3 sounds, in the shortest possible time, so the sentences that achieve that are often unnatural although grammatically correct!
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/17/4596374/machine-language-how-siri-found-its-voice
also Masters in computer speech processing.
Re your bonus question - how can you make your own?:
Many companies offer a stripped down version for making your own TTS voice. It won't take 80 hours as you're not making a professional quality TTS. For example I found this product from Acapela: http://www.acapela-group.com/faq-my-own-voice/. You could make a TTS using this (free) but then you'd have to pay to deploy it on an Android phone, and then you could set your phone settings to use it as the default voice and the Google Maps/Directions app would read out directions in your own voice!
I personally use http://www.acapela-group.com/ for the voices, it has high quality standards. Then I use the program "Sound Tap" to record it ( http://www.computerbild.de/download/SoundTap-Streaming-Audio-Recorder-915822.html ) and then I save it as a WAV file. After that, you can easily import it into your program to cut it or make it shorter by speeding it up or longer by slowing it down.
I started off buying Rachel from Acapela which I thought was great, but she would kind of skip/jitter between words. Transitions weren't smooth.
Then they had Ivona voices become available, so I tried Amy and it has just been amazing. It's so smooth. I note that the Ivona voices are more expensive, possibly they are more advanced in some way (which likely means a larger voice file).
I just listened to the Lisa and Nicole Australian voice samples, and Nicole (the Ivona) sounds smoother. Lisa reminds me of Rachel in how the words fit together, so I suspect you get the same kind of jerkiness, though it's still good quality.
You can also try longer samples on the company websites:
> Would that be pronounced roughly as leeb enz ob shnit guh fühl?
It's more like laybens-upshnits-guhfühl
If you want a better prononciation have the word read by Acapela's excellent TTS engine.
It makes sense, of course, it just looks funny, haha.
I looked a little more into it, and found a forum from 2014 discussing it, wanna get tripped out over what the correct "pronounciation key" looks like:
>The International Phonetic Alphabet is useful to learn - it's not hard (I learned it on my own, not in school). You'll find that many dictionaries use it, including this website.
>Anyway, / ʒɑ̃ / represents one consonant and one vowel sound. The / ʒ / is the French/Portuguese "j" sound. It's the same sound as the "g" in the word massage, espionage, and so on.
>The / ɑ̃ / represents a French nasal vowel. It's similar to the first syllable of "awning." Take that first syllable ( "awn") and say it without pronouncing the "n" and you have it.
>If that didn't help, visit this website ( http://www.acapela-group.com) and choose a French speaker to pronounce "Jean," and you'll hear it clearly. It's actually quite different from "John".
Pretty much, yeah !
Maybe this can help : just type "Jean" here and by selecting french in the list of languages, you can have a french speaker pronounce it for you :)
I found a text to speech generator that sounds vaguely like Attenborough for anyone who wants to enjoy this post in audio.
There should be a demo on the side. Select UK/Graham. Only works in small chunks unfortunately. I'd do up an mp3, but my wife wants me to be productive. :(
Do you mean a text-to-speech synthesizer (where the computer "says" what you type) ...but in your own voice? Yes, that is possible. Here is a place offering that service. Here is a blog post describing how to use another similar service.
TL;DR Is it free? Yes. Will it sound exactly like you? No. How is it done? You spend about 8 hours reading sentences to your computer.
In the new Invasion map Watergate, there is an announcer that uses a Text-To-Speech (WillFromAFar) program instead of the default Announcer (The Administrator/Helen, AKA THe Female Voice)
The reason why it's such a meme, is due to how awkward the quote "We are in the beam" is, when using the Text-To-Speech program.
Just for a heads up, this is the text-to-speech program used for this announcer, specifically "willfromafar" which is the same voice as Captain Dickhead from Sleepycast, as others have pointed out in this thread.
>So is it different in the long form or am I misremembering entirely?
Yeah, though even that depends on the dialect. That's what makes all of this so confusing. There are certain German dialects where a long "ä" is pronounced like a long "e," but not in mine.
>Pet/pat is not a simple length distinction though - they're both "short" vowels. That's like saying <oe> is a drawn out <ue>. Maybe you hear it that way - I've heard the same from Russian speakers.
Pet/pat are different, I agree. But for other words, it depends.
Check out this text-to-speech website. If you pick English (USA) as your language and Sharon as your voice, there's only the tiniest difference between "Lannister" and "Lennister," and that's also how I personally pronounce it.
I can understand what you're saying. Sometimes you skip few words like "de la" or "protestation" (you forgot the syllable "ta").
The pronunciation of "cour d'assises" and "enquête" is incorrect.
I don't know how to explain by text so you can try voice generator to hear the correct pronunciation :
This is better text to speech software. http://www.acapela-group.com/
The sounds ɛ̃ and œ̃ are hardest to pronounce in my opinion as I can't think of some English words that can be nasalised in order to produce a sound similar either.
Edit: Actually, try saying in through your nose without pronouncing the n.
Acapela Text-to-speech is also great. They have some more language choices as well, including some of the major Asian languages. Beyond that, for some of the really popular languages they have some "emotive" options (happy/sad/close-up/from afar/etc). Check it out!
I use voice recognition in Elite:dangerous, and its really really helpful.
To be able to balance you power, e.g power up your shields by saying "shields", or "weapons" etc is both fun and helpful, allowing you to concentrate on flying.
I use voice attack (which i believe uses windows 7 voice recognition) which when trained is pretty good.
Also, voice attack allows you to play a sound file when detecting a command allowing you to, among other things to synthesize feedback. ie when i say "shields" it presses the shield key, but also says "power shields" in a new futuristic style voice.
Wouldnt play it without it!
Correct but for the end : "[...] and speak to you in French."
Feed this sentence to Acapela group and choose a French voice to hear it spoken. Or I can record it if you'd like.
> I want convincingly Arabic-sounding phonemes (ideally perfectly accurate, such that if someone worked it backwards they could get back to the original)
In that case, it might be easier if you simply ask for suggestions if it's only a couple of words.
As for طقوس it can mean ritual and is indeed stressed on the second syllable. I.e. a simplified transliteration would be toKOOS. (Most linguists would transliterate it as ṭuqūs.)
To give you an idea what it sounds like, visit the Acapela TTS demo website, select Arabic as the language and Nizar as the speaker. Then paste the Arabic text into the text box and click Listen.
Thanks for this, i went ahead and installed it and it works great!!
I synthesized a nice female voice for all my feedback audio http://www.acapela-group.com/ which works great as "Heather" sounds just right ;)
Yes - I use Voice Dream Reader (iOS - payware but worth every cent) and I've bought an Ivona voice which is amazingly good quality. There are entire phrases where you couldn't even tell it's tts, it's so natural.
The Ivona voices were the most expensive ($4.99 vs $1.99 - but that's only a coffee or two) but compared to the previous Acapela voice I had - which was still very impressive - it's so much more pleasant. There's also a free built-in voice, Acapela Heather (US English female) that may suit you.
Test Acapela voices here
Test Ivona voices here
(You can also test them in-app, but it's easier online).
Yes, the Norwegian pronunciation there is quite accurate, kind of sounds like a computerized northern Norwegian dialect.
This site has pretty good text to speech, and in the case of "Oddbjørg" I think the male voice (Norwegian - Olav) had the best pronunciation.
http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html
It isn't perfect and I couldn't get it to read my entered text as anything more than string of letters but I'm really impressed with what they have already. I never thought something like that would be possible.
More like luh. Better yet, a short leuh pronounced quickly.
Go here
Choose: French - Antoine
Type this: "le couteau est sur la table"
This text shows why you don't get a girlfriend and probably never will, if you don't understand the issue.
Whatever, it was incredibly funny to put this text on http://www.acapela-group.com/ and have it read by WillSad (emotive voice) English USA. Thank you for the great entertainment.
You are truly unfit for reproduction. You need some empathy.
PS: Okay thb, I seriously don't understand why nobody would "repsect" someone with such a high verbal IQ.
I assume you're referring to text to speech, here's what I found with Google.
In order to reproduce the natural sound of each language, a narrator records a series of texts (poetry, political news, sports results, stock exchange updates, etc.) which contain every possible sound in the chosen language. These recordings are then sliced and organized into an acoustic database. During database creation, all recorded speech is segmented into some or all of the following: diphones, syllables, morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences. To reproduce words from a text, the TTS system begins by carrying out a sophisticated linguistic analysis that transposes written text into phonetic text. A grammatical and syntactic analysis then enables the system to define how to pronounce each word in order to reconstruct the sense. We call this the prosody: it gives the rhythm and intonation of a sentence. Finally, the system produces information associating the phonetic writing with the tone and required length of the pronunciation. The chain of analysis ends here and sound is generated by selecting the best units stocked in the acoustic database.
Purpley Durpley and the narrator were from http://www.acapela-group.com/
Purpley Durpley was "WillBadGuy" which is under "English (US)"
The narrator was "WillFromAfar" which again is under "English (US)
Pinkley Dinkley's voice is from http://www.voiceforge.com/demo and is Wiseguy.
I want this done with the "Captain Dickhead" voice. The temporary, but now memetic TTS that lead to TF2's "WE ARE IN THE BEAM".
Change the voice to WillFromAfar, type your line, and hit listen.
Go here then change the voice to WillFromAfar. Now get into the beeeeeeeaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmm!
It's not voice acting. It's one of those robotic computer generated voices.
Go to this site, select WillFromAfar (emotive voice) in the voice dropdown, and you can generate voice lines with it. If you type in "We are in the beam" you'll see it's even an exact match with the one that's in the game
It's really very complicated to make synthesized speech sound real. There are a lot of very subtle qualities to human speech that we first have to identify and research before we can simulate them.
There are many companies working on improving text-to-speech algorithms, and their voices get more naturalistic every year. A nice example is Acapela Group, you can try out their voices on their website.
If you want to read more about this, I would recommend this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#Challenges
Possibly even currently possible? http://www.acapela-group.com/faq-my-own-voice/
>my-own-voice is a service that allows you to create a text-to-speech voice from your own voice.
Edit: Listened to their samples. They're not good enough yet.
It's a French name, you pronounce it the same way as the French sprinter's name (Samuel from AG2R). Dü (You don't have this sound I think) -moo-lain (ie like in friend).
For more clarification: http://www.acapela-group.com/
Don't use the Dutch version, use the French one.
I don't have the money for siri, but I have had Dragon read things. But nothing beats you reading it out loud yourself to see if it flows, if you've made a mistake or inadvertently made a mini-tongue twister of a sentence.
I have also used ATT&T's old site and the new one http://www.acapela-group.com/demo-tts/DemoHTML5Form_V2.php
don't worry i found it here it's the WillFromAfar voice and they used WillBadGuy for the AGUA EDITION part of senor treachery
Yes, it is not good at translating. But, the speech for google translate uses Google TTS. Which i would much prefer over some rendom person on the internet telling me things that my teacher told me was wrong. you learn "and after 100" at age 3. Could your parents not afford state schooling for you? Here is another website that shows you are wrong. Even Wikipedia says you are wrong
And a verb does not combine. In fact, the word "Plus" is a Conjunction. So, Conjunctions do combine.
As far as I know, astra is just pre-recorded stuff. There are quite a few truly realistic text to speech systems out there. Ivona & Acapela group's software comes ro mind. As far as conversation goes, you'd have to rig one of those TTS programs to a chatbot & run that in tandem with voice attack. That would probably get the results you're looking for.
A master profile for VA would take ages & a lot of work, & is theoretically possible. I just dunno how good it would be.
nɔ̃ pa ʀɛj. That is the International Phonetic Alphabet way to spell nonpareil. Basically, you say the first syllable "non" is pronounced nasally without pronouncing the n. The next syllable is 'pa". the last syllable is pronounced like the English word "rye". The "eil" ending makes a sound like the "y" in "you". Here is a good site that converts text to speech. http://www.acapela-group.com/
Pohl I guess. I think it would be pronounced as "Pål" by most people, if going by the Swedish alphabet, though some people would pronounce it more like "Pa-ool".
Try putting "Pål" in Acapela's text to speech. (Swedish langage of course.)
Since no one responded yet, I think it's cool that you are helping your friend!
I don't know anything about SH or what he uses but I've had a lot of fun with this site - http://www.acapela-group.com/?lang=en
Why not just use a text to speech software like that? Seems like getting static words from videos will not create a good end result (to me).
It's "Mémorial," note the accent aigu. You really need to hear a French speaker say this because there are little things that your transliteration doesn't include.
I plugged your sentences into this Acapela demo app. I selected French (obviously) with "Antoine." It sounds good. You get the pronunciation, but also the intonation and rhythm.
Make sure to plug in the sentence with "Mémorial" spelled correctly.
I hope you like it!
You can try out the different voices in-app, but I found it easier to demo them online:
I started out by using Acapela Rachel (UK English) but I've since switched to Ivona Amy (UK English). The Ivona voice is pricier - still only a couple of coffees though - but so much more natural. I liked Rachel's tone, but the voice would kind of go skippy/machine-like when reading quicker syllables. Amy is far smoother.
For the perfect pronunciation of "Duvel", go to http://www.acapela-group.com/
Choose language "Dutch (Belgium)", and Zoe as the voice. Then type Duvel, and listen.
She has the perfect pronunciation.
David / Michael,
What consideration has been made to NPC speech in E:D? Some of the TTS demos these days are getting pretty impressive (e.g. http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html). Is procedurally-generated audio an option? Either way, it would probably help immensely with immersion (different accents for races / planetary regions, etc).
... and just to add a note of thanks - first for creating Elite in the first place, a true work of art given the hardware available at the time, and second for keeping the Elite community hopes alive with news of a worthy sequel. All the best to Frontier, can't wait to see what you come up with!
What do you mean? "Les" is pronounced "lay," and "la" is pronounced "lah." Just slow the voice down, and it's easy to detect which one they want you to type.
Although, I do agree the voice sounds really computer-like. If they don't want to have to get native speakers create recordings for them, they could use this really good text-to-speech voice I found a while back. It has a bunch of different voices for French (and many other languages), and they actually sound French. And it's clearer. I think that would be a reasonable replacement.