[supertoom]

I want to use the speech function in OS X as vocals in a song I'm working on (in Reason). Is there an easy way to do that? I want it to speek at the same tempo as my song, how do I do that?

One way I've tried is to save the text to AIFF with Voice Box and then chop it up with ReCycle, but the result isn't that good.

Is there an app in which you can tell 'say this text in this BPM'?

thanks

[thePurpleGiant]

You can't do it in BPM, but you can change the tempo - System Preferences > Speech > Default Voice > Rate

Hope this helps

[arekkusu]

You can have total control over the pitch and duration of every syllable in the Mac speech synthesizer. For example: select all this next block of text and then Services>Speech>Start Speaking Text

*** Example one *** (Shonen Knife lyric, sung by me)

[[inpt TUNE]]
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l {D 140; P 169.0:0 169.0:36 176.0:57 202.0:86}
1EH {D 150; P 215.0:0 240.0:29 248.0:54}
t {D 110; P 270.0:0 270.0:80}
s {D 100; P 270.0:0}
_
g {D 80; P 270.0:0 270.0:23 270.0:46 270.0:69 244.0:92}
1OW {D 320; P 241.0:0 241.0:20}
_
f {D 140; P 248.0:0 248.0:44 248.0:94}
1IH {D 130; P 248.0:0 253.0:67}
S {D 130; P 253.0:0 253.0:94}
IX {D 40; P 230.0:0}
N {D 160; P 221.0:0 221.0:38}
~
f {D 70; P 221.0:0 221.0:92}
AX {D 340; P 200.0:0 189.0:46}
r {D 20; P 205.0:0}
~
AX {D 50; P 202.0:0}
_
b {D 70; P 202.0:0}
l {D 290; P 202.0:0}
1AE {D 220; P 208.0:0 210.0:80}
k {D 180; P 206.0:0}
_
b {D 30; P 206.0:0 206.0:17}
1AE {D 780; P 185.0:0 204.0:28 211.0:78 204.0:83 198.0:85 222.0:95}
s {D 290; P 218.0:0 210.0:11 210.0:29 210.0:100}
, {D 440}
~
b {D 40; P 247.0:0 162.0:92}
2UX {D 500; P 168.0:0 239.0:59}
d {D 30; P 239.0:0}
~
IH {D 240; P 250.0:0}
d {D 30; P 239.0:0}
~
2IH {D 510; P 244.0:0 239.0:50}
z {D 110; P 239.0:0 250.0:94}
~
AX {D 230; P 250.0:0 247.0:70}
_
r {D 80; P 247.0:0 249.0:25 239.0:92}
1EY {D 510; P 239.0:0 240.0:20 227.0:37 200.0:57}
n {D 50; P 213.0:0 215.0:78}
IY {D 180; P 215.0:0 218.0:40 218.0:93}
_
d {D 60; P 195.0:0 201.0:71 196.0:93}
1EY {D 880; P 193.0:0 204.0:23 206.0:72 206.0:77 210.0:84 214.0:93 214.0:100}
, {D 240}
[[inpt TEXT]]



Apple ships a tool with Xcode called "Repeat After Me" that will let you record your own voice and then map a synthesized text string to the pitch and tempo which makes creating these pretty easy. It'd be very tedious setting the syllable lengths manually, but you can do it that way too if you want.



Here's another one:

*** Example two *** (Weird Al lyric, sung by me again)

[[inpt TUNE]]
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2AY {D 30; P 119.0:0 119.0:29 119.0:42 119.0:54}
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m {D 80; P 118.0:0 124.0:23 124.0:46 124.0:77}
1EH {D 170; P 151.0:0 169.0:30 180.0:50 184.0:65}
t {D 20; P 192.0:0 197.0:70 199.0:90}
~
h {D 20; P 199.0:0 201.0:43}
IH {D 70; P 200.0:0 202.0:62}
m {D 100; P 203.0:0 199.0:92}
_
1IH {D 110; P 199.0:0 200.0:48}
n {D 40; P 202.0:0}
~
IX {D 90; P 204.0:0 205.0:90}
_
s {D 110; P 207.0:0 207.0:60 207.0:93}
w {D 60; P 207.0:0}
1AA {D 200; P 196.0:0 196.0:12 202.0:62 202.0:76}
m {D 20; P 205.0:0 205.0:50}
p {D 230; P 205.0:0 205.0:43}
_
d {D 20; P 183.0:0 182.0:50 181.0:90}
1AW {D 30; P 181.0:0 181.0:14 181.0:33}
n {D 50; P 185.0:0 185.0:67}
~
2IH {D 30; P 178.0:0 175.0:50}
n {D 100; P 174.0:0}
_
d {D 40; P 174.0:0 178.0:83}
EH {D 160; P 176.0:0}
g {D 110; P 181.0:0 176.0:31 160.0:88}
1OW {D 270; P 159.0:0 158.0:29 159.0:43 161.0:64}
b {D 70; P 161.0:0}
AX {D 80; P 153.0:0 154.0:18 154.0:41 158.0:59 164.0:86 164.0:100}
, {D 200}
_
w {D 120; P 160.0:0 164.0:27 205.0:91}
1EH {D 240; P 212.0:0 218.0:24 213.0:40 208.0:64}
r {D 210; P 203.0:0 196.0:41}
~
IH {D 40; P 185.0:0}
t {D 80; P 186.0:0 286.0:60}
_
b {D 40; P 234.0:0 182.0:50}
1UX {D 110; P 181.0:0 181.0:48}
b {D 30; P 172.0:0 177.0:92}
AX {D 30; P 177.0:0}
l {D 50; P 171.0:0}
z {D 80; P 163.0:0 158.0:93}
_
1AO {D 30; P 159.0:0 159.0:33 159.0:67 159.0:80}
l {D 60; P 159.0:0 160.0:91}
~
D {D 60; P 165.0:0 162.0:86}
AX {D 50; P 160.0:0 159.0:90}
_
t {D 140; P 159.0:0 159.0:40 155.0:93}
1AY {D 240; P 156.0:0 158.0:9 161.0:19 159.0:66}
m {D 90; P 161.0:0 190.0:100}
% {D 20}
~
l {D 20; P 192.0:0 193.0:80}
2AY {D 80; P 195.0:0 197.0:22 197.0:44 200.0:81}
k {D 90; P 200.0:0 200.0:73 200.0:93}
~
IX {D 60; P 199.0:0}
_
J {D 180; P 199.0:0 199.0:28 184.0:94}
1AY {D 150; P 183.0:0 185.0:19 185.0:75 182.0:89}
IX {D 30; P 177.0:0 173.0:43}
n {D 220; P 166.0:0}
t {D 30; P 166.0:0 166.0:86 166.0:100}
% {D 40}
_
k {D 100; P 166.0:0 159.0:94}
1AA {D 70; P 159.0:0 159.0:18 166.0:41 169.0:68}
r {D 240; P 174.0:0 168.0:50}
b {D 80; P 119.0:0}
AX {D 70; P 164.0:0}
n {D 90; P 167.0:0}
EY {D 130; P 160.0:0}
d {D 40; P 160.0:0}
IX {D 30; P 165.0:0 166.0:50}
d {D 100; P 166.0:0}
_
s {D 110; P 166.0:0 166.0:33}
1OW {D 710; P 153.0:0 159.0:46}
d {D 30; P 169.0:0}
AX {D 270; P 162.0:0 168.0:68 170.0:82 170.0:100}
. {D 210}
[[inpt TEXT]]

[Spheric Harlot]

Does Speak after me come with a decent interface to make this relatively simple?

Would it, for example, be possible to, say, monitor a logic song on headphones while singing into the mic, to get the vocal part resynthesized?

does it work with any vocal sound file? how?

-s*