"Siri" Like Voice Block

b1456

Hi,
I had a suggestion for an upcoming Scratch update, could you add a block that the user would type in a sentence(s) and you would have a option between certain voices and when you selected a voice, it would play a voice sample, some thing like,"Hello! I'm name!". Of course the name would be replaced with names like,

Trish

Joe

Adam

Cameron

ect…

An example of the block is,

In [ v] voice, say,"[ ]" until done

or, to continue along the script,

In [ v] voice, say,"[]"

If you could consider this, that would be great!

Thanks,
b1456

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matey1234

Duplicate, and indiffirent. IMO, wouldn't really have any use.

b1456

matey1234 wrote:
Duplicate, and indiffirent. IMO, wouldn't really have any use.

Its an easy way to get voices in scratch without having to record them yourself. Take Google Translate, you can build of of something they have there. I'm going to Gooogle Pittsburgh in July so I,ll ask how they did that

matey1234

b1456 wrote:
matey1234 wrote:
Duplicate, and indiffirent. IMO, wouldn't really have any use.

Its an easy way to get voices in scratch without having to record them yourself. Take Google Translate, you can build of of something they have there. I'm going to Gooogle Pittsburgh in July so I,ll ask how they did that

fromtexttospeech.com

Upload the .mp3 files… they work

The_Scratch_Squad

b1456 wrote:
matey1234 wrote:
Duplicate, and indiffirent. IMO, wouldn't really have any use.

Its an easy way to get voices in scratch without having to record them yourself. Take Google Translate, you can build of of something they have there. I'm going to Gooogle Pittsburgh in July so I,ll ask how they did that

Oh yeah! That…

Well, I guess it would be a good idea, rather than record it yourself…?

Support…

picklehazard

Totally Supporting. Microphones Work On Barely Any Computers Including Mine. With This Block I, And Many Other Scratchers Will Be Able To Make Characters In Our Projects Be Able To Talk Without A Mic. That's Pretty Nice Of You!

Last edited by picklehazard (June 6, 2015 21:24:20)

CatsUnited

Speech recognition is quite a hard thing to write, and virtually impossible in Scratch. There are extensions, however if an Actionscript text-speech recognition was created, then we wouldn't have to leave the editor or get out a microphone. I know of text-speech recognition projects made in Scratch, but they are highly inaccurate, so support.

DaSpudLord

Semi-support, because if this gets implemented, the ST then has to create a text-to-speech engine, and not sure if it would 100% be worth their time…

Last edited by DaSpudLord (June 6, 2015 12:49:46)

PrincessPanda_test_

Semi-support

That would have been useful for people without microphones but ST would have to implement a text-to-speech engine which is very time-consuming.

Birdlegs

Huh… I don't feel like this fits the design goals properly. Not sure…

CatsUnited

PrincessPanda_test_ wrote:
That would have been useful for people without microphones but ST would have to implement a text-to-speech engine which is very time-consuming.

There could be ActionScript engines for that kind of thing avaliable.

IronBit_Studios

matey1234 wrote:
b1456 wrote:
matey1234 wrote:
Duplicate, and indiffirent. IMO, wouldn't really have any use.

Its an easy way to get voices in scratch without having to record them yourself. Take Google Translate, you can build of of something they have there. I'm going to Gooogle Pittsburgh in July so I,ll ask how they did that
fromtexttospeech.com

Upload the .mp3 files… they work

No Support as per this.

cwkethan1508

picklehazard wrote:
Totally Supporting. Microphones Work On Barely Any Computers Including Mine. With This Block I, And Many Other Scratchers Will Be Able To Make Characters In Our Projects Be Able o Talk Without A Mic. That's Pretty Nice Of You!

this

Sigton

No support.

Sigton

rollercoasterfan

DaSpudLord wrote:
Semi-support, because if this gets implemented, the ST then has to create a text-to-speech engine, and not sure if it would 100% be worth their time…

Alberknyis

I really don't think this is worth the Scratch Teams time.

Vetpetmon

picklehazard wrote:
Totally Supporting. Microphones Work On Barely Any Computers Including Mine. With This Block I, And Many Other Scratchers Will Be Able To Make Characters In Our Projects Be Able To Talk Without A Mic. That's Pretty Nice Of You!

Above, but instead, my Mic records background noise and weird static.

samanyolu

matey1234 wrote:
fromtexttospeech.com

Upload the .mp3 files… they work

No support because of this.

Last edited by samanyolu (June 7, 2015 13:05:11)

Rex208

Alberknyis wrote:
I really don't think this is worth the Scratch Teams time.

I agree. Some people could use it, but there are lots of simpler workarounds.

JavaFernOS

No support. fromtexttospeech.com or that other site that they use for illuminati-ish projects and other non-scratch-purpose things.

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