Bored of "beep beep" or whatever sound your pda is having? Wish your pda could make sounds like "excuse me boss, you have a text message" or even better, make it say "excuse me master *insert your name here*, you have a text message"

Well, i stumbled on this site and, basically you can enter any text you want, choose the voice, and it will say it for you. You can save the .wav file in your PC, transfer to your pda, and you can use it as an sms! Or even other notifications!!

"excuse me u have an e mail"
"hey pick up the phone" or can u even think of more naughty or vulgar speeches? lol

Best of all its free!

Instructions:

1. Go here http://www.cepstral.com/demos/ to do your stuff.
2. Download the .wav file into your PC.
3. NOTE: the sound is pretty soft, so u'll have to make it louder. If you're using windows, go to start > all programs > accessories > Entertainment > Sound recorder. Load the file, and u can increase the volume by 25% incrementally.
4. Now connect your pda to the PC, and place the .wav file in the root folder of your storage card, or in your pda memory

EG: /Windows/.wav or /Storagecard/hello.wav

tadaa!! U can personalise everything, your sms, e mail, alerts, whatever sound u can think off in your pda!!

I personally prefer Millie (UK english) find it clearer than the US English, and i like Shout (Character).

ALSO NOTE: If u cant get it right, try playing with phonetics. For example, Baronic sounds horrible on the program, so instead, i typed, "Hey Bearonic, you have a new message!"

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The site is actually a demo for a program, that u can use to read any text documents at all on your PDA. Imagine it reading your lecture notes to sleep. how cool is that? If u like the program, do support the developer and buy it.

EDIT: FOR THOSE WHO WANNA MAKE THEIR PDAPHONE TALK BUT TOO LAZY TO DO THE ABOVE, DOWNLOAD MY PACKAGE I MADE, COVERS ALMOST ALL IMPORTANT NOTIFICATIONS AND ALERTS. DOWNLOAD FROM HERE

This post has been edited by Baronic: Jun 14 2008, 10:42 PM

Nice one

how u dload the .wav file?

This post has been edited by ^Hobbes^: Jun 14 2008, 06:21 PM

when u click say it, u can choose to open or download. Using firefox here

Trying it right now.

lol, it definitely works, i've personalised some of my notifications lol

damn funny man the american spanish...

tried using vulgar words? hahahaha XD

Can't find a cute anime girl's voice. Well, it's free, can't be helped.

The voice sounds little bit 'robotic'. Any way to make the voice inflex certain words?

Example: (normal msg) Hi lover boy, you got a message
(target) Hi lover boy, you got a message

dl under wat?
desktop or handheld?

cant. lol, its a demo la for u to buy the application itself. Its supposed to be used to read stuff. For example u have a story text document. Install the program, load it up, and it reads for u! how cool is that! imagine reading your lecture notes to u hahaha.

jonrwg i dun understand your question lol. read first post?

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Added on June 14, 2008, 8:44 pmhave u tried doing "Hi loooveerr boooy" or something? adjust it and the program should try to adapt

This post has been edited by Baronic: Jun 14 2008, 08:44 PM

"Loooveeerrr booy" and variants didn't work. Putting lots of spacebars between the words also doesn't work. Any ideas?

last resort, crop and paste and merge files. haha. use Nero Wave Editor. So u can make one voice, with different settings, crop out lover boy and paste in another file

Tip: Make the sentence rhyme and the speech will sound more natural.

lol? how long is your sentence?

Messing around with "Humpty dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty dumpty had a great fall".

More messing around after this.

CUNN BARONIC.. LOL


EH.. cant seem to dl it wen i click "Say It!" it plays straight away.. tried it on both IE and firefox


This post has been edited by dadarouch: Jun 14 2008, 09:42 PM

I'm making a package for all (or almost all the notifications), so my Touch Diamond will virtually "speak" to me. haha, if u lazy to download and upgrade volume etc, i can upload u can just download and set. if u want

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Added on June 14, 2008, 10:42 pmAdded my own sound package

This post has been edited by Baronic: Jun 14 2008, 10:42 PM

download to your pc first. then only transfer to yr ppc.

new batch, more "Human" than the first batch http://rapidshare.de/files/39724415/Millie...glish_.zip.html

will give it a try. dl-ing.