Voice generator within Game Salad

Larry Winters

Hi All!

I'm revising my funny calculator app that I released a few years ago (link below).

I'm wondering if there's a way within Game Salad to do text-to-speech. One of the functions of my calculator is that when the user presses equal, the calculator displays the answer to their calculation and insults them with pre-written text on screen. I want to upgrade it so that it reads the text aloud, which would include reading the answer to the calculation. Is this possible with in GS?

Link to game:

https://www.amazon.com/Ethan-T-Berlin-Revenge-Calculators/dp/B018SQL76I

UltraLionBlu

To my knowledge Gamesalad does not have an audio reading function of the text (but we await confirmation)

On the other hand, if the answers are a list of sentences inserted in a table, you can find something that reads them online (or even record them with your voice or that of some friend) and record an audio clip, so you can use it among the sounds at the time of your sentence.

adent42

Nope, though you could parse the text into phenomena and use tables to “script” playing them (it’s gonna be a bit robotic)

Larry Winters

Thank you! @adent42 How would that work?

adent42

So run your text through something like this:

https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer

Then store each phenome in a table cell.

Next set up a bunch of rules to play all the phonemes.

Something like this: https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ipa-sounds/ipa-chart-with-sounds/

Finally, for each word, use loops to play the sound for each phoneme.

There are probably parsers that can parse to a much smaller phoneme set to make it more manageable, but my google-fu on mobile is not as good.

adent42

Here are the sounds from the old Speak & Spell toy you might be able to use: http://www.maximporges.com/2011/10/08/speak-and-spell-samples/

adent42

NM about the Speak & Spell samples. Looks like they literally recorded every word for that device.

adriangomez

You should be able to do this with an HTML export and then using that for a cordova app.

adent42

Depending on the amount of text, it might also just work to get sound files for it all.

And if you like that classic 80's computer voice:

https://discordier.github.io/sam/

jamie_c

https://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/615698#Comment_615698

Wow, I remember that on my Commodore 64. What a blast from the past! :)