I've got an NPC coming up in my game, from the Chronicles of the Gatekeeper module. She's suffered some severe injuries in the past, and has had a fair amount of cybernetic work done (Uh, spoiler: there's a cyborg in CotG. Sorry). I wanted to play up that angle, by using some sort of iron lung sound effect, and using Text-to-Speech for her dialogue (and yes, if she has anything extended to say, I'll be typing it up ahead of time). Trouble is, all the text-to-speech engines I can find sound too good. They hit the Uncanny Valley a little bit, but they sound mostly human and some off more like a pleasant automated answering machine than a creepy cyborg. I'm looking for something a little more like GladOS. Any suggestions?
Looking for (crummy) Text-to-Speech
5 minutes ago, The Grand Falloon said:I've got an NPC coming up in my game, from the Chronicles of the Gatekeeper module. She's suffered some severe injuries in the past, and has had a fair amount of cybernetic work done (Uh, spoiler: there's a cyborg in CotG. Sorry). I wanted to play up that angle, by using some sort of iron lung sound effect, and using Text-to-Speech for her dialogue (and yes, if she has anything extended to say, I'll be typing it up ahead of time). Trouble is, all the text-to-speech engines I can find sound too good. They hit the Uncanny Valley a little bit, but they sound mostly human and some off more like a pleasant automated answering machine than a creepy cyborg. I'm looking for something a little more like GladOS. Any suggestions?
Just imagine the entertaining disconnect when the fearsome-looking cyborg has a sweet and smooth synthetic voice.
Instead of text to speech, have you thought of using something like this? https://ultra-voice-changer.soft112.com/
There are several voice changing apps on both iphone and android
Macs have built-in text-to-speech effects, many of which meet your criteria, but I agree a voice changer is probably going to be more useful.
Maybe this will get you where you want to be? https://lingojam.com/RobotVoiceGenerator - seems to work pretty well in my tests!
I used this when we ran Being Beyond The Rim to act as MasterCOM. You can change the accent too.