Free Software that Makes Life Easier

Hermit Crab · June 2019

Ahhh, got it. Thanks for your patience! (You'll need patience to stick with the video but I am so pleased to get sound to play with).

WendyLuvsCatz · June 2019

well I got NBN today so uploaded an extrememely long boring one to test times and it only took half an hour

my music sort of free, used a midi keyboard but can use qwerty one was VSTi in SAVIhost and Audacity

ed3D · June 2019

Miss Bad Wolf said:

Wendy_Carrara said:

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/05/download-the-sims-4-for-free-right-now/

for those interested

Oops I missed it. Oh wait I already bought it earlier this year from NewEgg.

And one can buy games off NewEgg ,,then ??

Sfariah D · June 2019

ed3D said:

Miss Bad Wolf said:

Wendy_Carrara said:

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/05/download-the-sims-4-for-free-right-now/

for those interested

Oops I missed it. Oh wait I already bought it earlier this year from NewEgg.

And one can buy games off NewEgg ,,then ??

Oops I forgot I bought Roller coaster tycon via NewEgg. now to figure out if that was a steam game or I need to figure out where to download the game I got from New Egg. They even have like a 5 pack of steam games for a low cost. That is how I got 4 nights at something or something like that. Or is it 5 nights?

edit Here are my steam games. All but Left 4 Dead were gotten via New Egg. Left 4 Dead was gotten at Amazon. Yet another edit: I forgot to attach the screenshot of my games.

Mistara · June 2019

hexagon is free? https://www.daz3d.com/hexagon-2-5-download-version

is hexagon uvmapping unvomplicated?

Syrus_Dante · June 2019

Wendy_Carrara said:

well I got NBN today so uploaded an extrememely long boring one to test times and it only took half an hour

my music sort of free, used a midi keyboard but can use qwerty one was VSTi in SAVIhost and Audacity

I like that video, very creative watched it all the way through, if not for the music alone. That is very nice done sounds like a cinematic soundtrack to me with a subtile progression every ten minutes or so.

One thing I noticed is you have used "hard panning" for both VSTs - one instrument seems to play only on the right the other only on the left. That may not be an issue if you play it on a stereo but if you listen to it with headphones it is a bit distracting. Otherwise realy nice score and selection of sound-pads, it creates a tention that you would expect from a horror movie. I can hear you know how to play the keys.

WendyLuvsCatz · June 2019

Syrus_Dante said:

Wendy_Carrara said:

well I got NBN today so uploaded an extrememely long boring one to test times and it only took half an hour

my music sort of free, used a midi keyboard but can use qwerty one was VSTi in SAVIhost and Audacity

I like that video, very creative watched it all the way through, if not for the music alone. That is very nice done sounds like a cinematic soundtrack to me with a subtile progression every ten minutes or so.

One thing I noticed is you have used "hard panning" for both VSTs - one instrument seems to play only on the right the other only on the left. That may not be an issue if you play it on a stereo but if you listen to it with headphones it is a bit distracting. Otherwise realy nice score and selection of sound-pads, it creates a tention that you would expect from a horror movie. I can hear you know how to play the keys.

Being deaf in one ear sometimes can put me at a disadvantage for stereo mixing for headphones as I find them impossible to use it may not have been as obvious on my speakers, I do hear stereo and can certainly tell if quadraphonic or 5.1 but differently to most as it’s more a spacial experience

ed3D · June 2019

Miss Bad Wolf said:

Oops I forgot I bought Roller coaster tycon via NewEgg. now to figure out if that was a steam game or I need to figure out where to download the game I got from New Egg. They even have like a 5 pack of steam games for a low cost. That is how I got 4 nights at something or something like that. Or is it 5 nights?

edit Here are my steam games. All but Left 4 Dead were gotten via New Egg. Left 4 Dead was gotten at Amazon. Yet another edit: I forgot to attach the screenshot of my games.

_ alright then _ _ thanx for remarks

WendyLuvsCatz · June 2019

nm not free

WendyLuvsCatz · June 2019

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/ai-playground/

Nvidia's painting AI is live

Persona Non Grata · June 2019

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Diomede · June 2019

Thanks for the link

WendyLuvsCatz · June 2019

does anyone know how to use Google Speech?

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/

its free for the first 4 million words and I wanted to use it in my videos for character voices but it seems to only be an API no dumbass compiled version I can just type in and get an audio file

REIVAX · June 2019

Hello Wendy

perhaps this can help you or The big script team can find something to do with that ?

https://github.com/TimoBolkart/voca

and for deepspeech google

https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

you can find alpha release here

https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases

WendyLuvsCatz · June 2019

is not an exe though

I can get all the files to build it compile it but I cannot do that

REIVAX · June 2019

Hello wendy

you can open whl file with winrar( i have ) or other zipper or change whl to zip

after you can use if you have python installed

this afternoon :/ at the moment its 12 hour i lunch / i try to compile for you i test first in google colab

see you later

tomorrow is better

cause many library use linux

WendyLuvsCatz · June 2019

REIVAX said:

Hello wendy

you can open whl file with winrar( i have ) or other zipper or change whl to zip

after you can use if you have python installed

this afternoon :/ at the moment its 12 hour i lunch / i try to compile for you i test first in google colab

see you later

tomorrow is better

cause many library use linux

Thanks

I am afraid I am a very simple user, I just use readymade programs know nothing of code, compiling and stuff, I only do 3D modeling and animation and music composition really on my computer,

I don’t even know how to do spreadsheets and PowerPoint and stuff or use Word

REIVAX · June 2019

hi again

personnaly i use text to wav from

http://dnasoft.web.fc2.com/soft/texttowav/index.html

its in english its little 3 mo and use the voice of microsoft

work very well with daz studio and mimic

i tested with "le renard et le corbeau" from jean de la fontaine

WendyLuvsCatz · June 2019

REIVAX said:

hi again

personnaly i use text to wav from

http://dnasoft.web.fc2.com/soft/texttowav/index.html

its in english its little 3 mo and use the voice of microsoft

work very well with daz studio and mimic

i tested with "le renard et le corbeau" from jean de la fontaine

I have E speak and Balabolka and about 20 TSS voices, it was the Google AI one I wanted

that was the problem not using text to speech

sorry for the misunderstanding

I even have music score programs with virtual singers

they all have a robotic sound

the neural one sounds more convincing

I can just type in the webpage test and capture it on Audacity, not sure of the legality of that though and a bit iffy using stereomix as feeds back

WendyLuvsCatz · June 2019

The WASAPI option on Audacity stopped working a fair few Windows updates ago, that was easier as bypassed using speakers as mic input

Syrus_Dante · June 2019

I was in search of a good "text to speech" solution myself some time ago. I found this Acapela company that sells those good sounding voices.

Here is the demo page unfortunately they've added the backroud music about a year ago. Seems people like me have used this demo page alot instead of buying the voices.

https://acapela-box.com/AcaBox/index.php

I use the infovox speechpad and the german voice I use sounds natural with pronounciation and speech flow. What I'm missing is some kind of control like tags in between the text to "script" how the voice will pronounce single words or different parts of the text.
Acapela sells the voices in different versions like happy, sad or wispered, but I wonder how you would switch those while the voices read a text.

https://www.acapela-group.com/solutions/infovox-4/

Well the best you could do is propably record your voice and if you can't aford to have different voice actors speaking you could use a voice changing app like MophVox. They have a few voice Packs here:

http://screamingbee.com/product/voicepacks.aspx

Here is the download page for the "Free" junior MorphVox App and all the free voice packs:

https://screamingbee.com/product/download.aspx

WendyLuvsCatz · June 2019

Syrus_Dante said:

I was in search of a good "text to speech" solution myself some time ago. I found this Acapela company that sells those good sounding voices.

Here is the demo page unfortunately they've added the backroud music about a year ago. Seems people like me have used this demo page alot instead of buying the voices.

https://acapela-box.com/AcaBox/index.php

I use the infovox speechpad and the german voice I use sounds natural with pronounciation and voice flow. What I'm missing is some kind of control like tags in between the text to "script" how the voice will pronounce single words or different parts of the text.
Acapela sells the voices in different versions like happy, sad or wispered, but I wonder how you would switch those while the voices read a text.

https://www.acapela-group.com/solutions/infovox-4/

Well the best you could do is propably record your voice and if you can't aford to have different voice actors speaking you could use a voice changing app like MophVox. They have a few voice Packs here:

http://screamingbee.com/product/voicepacks.aspx

Here is the download page for the "Free" junior MorphVox App and all the free voice packs:

https://screamingbee.com/product/download.aspx

Acapella charge exhorbitant prices for use in videos

I have MorphVox the pro version for my voice

I was specifically after the Google AI

WendyLuvsCatz · June 2019

sorry for the misunderstanding

I have and use a lot of TTS and voice changing software

I was sharing the Google AI which has been recently made available just not in a binary build and the best TTS I have heard

Syrus_Dante · June 2019

I've just added the link to MorphVox cause it's free.

What I wanted to say is that even the best TTS will just read the text but real voice acting puts in emotion with the melody of the voice. Traditional TTS seems to detemin the pronounciation just by the punctuation marks.

Since you mentioned the virtual singers, I once thought of taking the recorded TTS voice and put a "vocoder" ontop or "pitch bend" the voice melody somehow with so called envelope curves but I guess that is where it starts to sound robotic.

Acapela seems to be the market leader so they can sell their voices for whatever price they want.

Infovox offers to add words into a lexicon with a Pronunciation Editor where you can script every letter of the word with phonemes that descripe how the word will be spoken. Thats the kind of control I was talking about and automated TTS often fails for example if my gps navigation tries to pronunce some foreign language street names it can sound funny.

I haven't headed Google AI speaking yet must be some development for the alexa voice.

WendyLuvsCatz · June 2019

you can test it here

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/

mindsong · June 2019

Syrus_Dante said:

I was in search of a good "text to speech" solution myself some time ago. I found this Acapela company that sells those good sounding voices.

Here is the demo page unfortunately they've added the backroud music about a year ago. Seems people like me have used this demo page alot instead of buying the voices.

https://acapela-box.com/AcaBox/index.php

I use the infovox speechpad and the german voice I use sounds natural with pronounciation and speech flow. What I'm missing is some kind of control like tags in between the text to "script" how the voice will pronounce single words or different parts of the text.
Acapela sells the voices in different versions like happy, sad or wispered, but I wonder how you would switch those while the voices read a text.

https://www.acapela-group.com/solutions/infovox-4/

Well the best you could do is propably record your voice and if you can't aford to have different voice actors speaking you could use a voice changing app like MophVox. They have a few voice Packs here:

http://screamingbee.com/product/voicepacks.aspx

Here is the download page for the "Free" junior MorphVox App and all the free voice packs:

https://screamingbee.com/product/download.aspx

Thanks Syrus_Dante!, The free tool is good for folks to know about.

That japanese text-to-speech tool is new to me, so thanks for that one too.

Sorry Wendy, I don't know much about the google tool. I'm kind of shunning that company these days, but will probably bee willing to sell my soul for a project if needed, so it is interesting to know about it.

I just started a new thread on lip-sync/voice-change/text-to-speech where we can consolidate our chatter on these kinds of tools:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/336351/voice-change-lip-sync-text-to-speech-music-audio-tools-for-projects

--ms

WendyLuvsCatz · July 2019

I captured it using Audacity because it was the only way I could think of

mindsong · July 2019

wow - generally pretty listenable - plausible inflection and emotion - a far cry from the usually robotic nature of TTS.

interesting. 4 million words free?

--ms

WendyLuvsCatz · July 2019

mindsong said:

wow - generally pretty listenable - plausible inflection and emotion - a far cry from the usually robotic nature of TTS.

interesting. 4 million words free?

--ms

Well if you can build a user interface

I cannot so just tested the demo page and captured my speakers