Pleasure Game – Activez Les Plaisirs (Amnesia Robot Mix) : Marcel Hol – Serious Beats Vol.4 Mega Dance Party Mix (1992) : Here’s some 90’s music tracks that used vocal synthesis (Amiga or Atari) : This was a great piece of talking machine, that is still circuit-bended to death nowadays. We must not forget the Speak n Spell toy by Texas Instrument ! They were all developped by Softvoice inc. Here’s a port for Windows, command line application : stspeech.exe That’s the one in U96 – Das Boot ! you can use the Steem Atari emulator + stspeech.tos You can use the brand new VST Speek or the S.A.M simulation program (command line executable for Windows) from Sebastian Macke : SAM for window The Commodore 64 Software Automatic Mouth (SAM) : It used narrator & translator library to produce nice computerized robot voices ! If you are not a happy Amiga 500 owner you can use an Amiga emulator : WinUAE The funkyest speech synthesis sotfwares at this time were : The robot voices were popular in the nineties. Text to speech vocal synthesis has been used in some famous (and less famous!) rave/techno songs from the 90’s. – assign pitchbend or midi CC to voice parameters.ĭon’t hesitate to report any bug you found. – ability to read longer text (and / or read from text file) – ability to assign different text to MIDI notes Please comment and vote for the most wanted feature / development for this VST plugin ! It’s not intended for good quality speech synthesis too, better speech synthesis softwares exist now. This is not a vocal synth like “Vocaloïd”, it’s intended to do crunchy robotic lofi techno voices! you can change original pitch or mouth/throat parameters while it’s speaking.you can trigger the speech with MIDI keyboard (velocity sensitive).The original C64 software has been reverse engineered and ported to C by Sebastian Macke : VST Speek text to speech is 100% freeware, the plugin is based on the Software Automatic Mouth (SAM) vocal synthesis software created by Softvoice Inc for the Commodore 64. – Added support for VST Key (not tested ! we don’t have Cubase) – Added hack for Ableton Live 9 : plugin should get keyboard keys input now – now the hack for getting keyboard events in Ableton is less dirty 🙂

– add hack for Presonus Studio One : text is now editable – fix for crash in Cubase when selecting preset from drop down menu Choose a preset, type any text and let’s speak !ĭownload VST Speek 1.3 for Windows 32 bitĭownload VST Speek 1.3 for windows 64 bit

VST Speek is a free vocal synthesis VST plugin for recreating the old skool robotic text to speech we all love.

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