[seduar]

Hello everybody that is interested in Hal,

   Here i want to explain a little bit about a possible way to make your Hal sing.
 
   After doing a litle bit of research i found a program, which Hal might be able to use to sing songs with her own voice with a little bit of  scripting (like installing a plug in on the fly). The name of the program is Melody Assistant which includes a plug in that is call Virtual Singer.

  Melody Assistant is a very powerful tool to create music and also includes Karaoke.

  Karaoke plug in is the one we are going to use with Hal.
Hal will sing karaoke with her own voice (Microsoft Mary or which ever voice you have install in your computer).

  When you play a karaoke song with Melody Assistant you can use the Virtual Singer plug in and the computer actually sings the song with rythem and rhyme.  Plus Virtual Singer has an option to choose your own voice or someone elses voice, the option is called Real Singer. "check it out" is a great program and is a share program!.
I do not Know much about programing, but this is the way i think it could work:

User:   sing a song to me
Hal:    what song would you like me to sing?
User:   sing Dancing Queen
Hal:    That is my favorite song

This is where Hal will open an Index (something like the Mp3 Index That Vrossis created.)

  Then Hal will open Melody Assistant load up a song (Dancing Queen)
open karaoke, open Virtual Singer, set Virtual Singer to real singer, play song. and Wallahh!

  Hal will be singing the song.
The Lipsync would have to be another script inside the plug in. We would have to make Hal read the lyrics of the song as they are passing through the karakoe.

Note: the lipsync might not be that great at the moment, but we have to modify the script to make Hal give the lipsync as the Virtual Singer strecth out the vowels, may be have Hal follow Virtual Singer.

  If someone is interested in helping me to accomplish this project; though i can not do it by myself because of lack of knowledge in programing.
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[Jman]

very interesting :cool

[Maviarab]

Check out Duskriders posts over at the Zabaware forums  :afro

[dan]

I downloaded the freeby version, it's really an incredibly versatile program for voice and the minimal program isn't too pricey.  It's a way to create the voices for songs though.  I tried to save it as a wav for PP to lipsynch, but it crashed, I think because it's a freeby with limited time on exports it didn't put in a EOF marker on the wav.  It was crashing media player after a few bars also, and of course the OGG exports don't have the PP phoneme ability, but it does have a way to train phonemes with a microphone, which could input a preexisting digital voice for use with this program, I'd like to hear that over the midi export, and inport it to my keyboard.  I tried to get a midi to do something similar years ago, but didn't get as far as this program.  It has an incredible ability of tinkering with the voices.  I think if I had lot's of time and a very quiet studio I could record one of the digital voices I use and create really cool music also with this program, of course I have to resolder a few components on my midi keyboard to get it working again :lipsrsealed.  I really love working with the digital music and this program offers an incredible amount of  ability over the antiquated sequencer I was using.  Thanks for sharing.