Any other voices?

[etayluz]

Are there any other voices that are available?
I want to use this for a project in Hebrew that has additional syllables that English does not have - like the guttural "cha".
As was as the "tza" in pizza and other sounds that don't exist in English.

Is there a way I can somehow add more syllable sounds?

[usdivad]

Hey! I just added the rest of the original mespeak voices in commit e43ed7e on the feature-additional-voices branch.

You can change the voice in line 408 of mesing.js:

mesing/js/src/mesing.js

Line 408 in e43ed7e

meSpeak.loadVoice("/js/lib/mespeak/voices/en/en-us.json", function() {

by just putting in the file path to the appropriate voice. For example, to use the French voice, you can do:

meSpeak.loadVoice("/js/lib/mespeak/voices/fr.json", function() {

I tried out a couple of languages and they're definitely distinguishable from the en-us voice, although the vocoder obscures the articulation somewhat.

Ideally the voice/language would be part of the meSing.Singer parameters, and maybe a simple dropdown UI in the demo page so you can choose different voices. However, that requires some restructuring of the way the voices are loaded (alas, hindsight is 20/20), and I'm not sure when exactly I'll be able to get around to that, so I wanted to at least comment here with something usable (albeit hacky) in the meantime.

Let me know if this helps -- also, if you (or anyone else) feel up to implementing that parameterization (and optionally the demo UI), I'd certainly welcome that!