A virtual Singer

[shashikantb]

Hi all,

I wish to have a plugin associated with LMMS which can sing the melodies I create with the words I mention.

I mean a plugin in which we can mention the track and type in the words(or syllables) in a text file OR on individual notes of that track. And also choose the voice texture from a list of available voices. And it produces a singing human voice on the basis of words I enter with the pitch variation according to the notes that I mention in that melody track.

[brandystarbrite]

I LUV this question!

Well........you're not the only one, who has asked for a plugin like that.
Check for this topic, Generals Section: Singerbot Plugin.

I don't know if "Singerbot," is still in development though.
It would have been really fun, to have such a plugin.

[treefingers]

Getting a believable, fully synthetic singing voice is pretty much the apex of voice synthesis tech.

If you're willing to settle for (or maybe even hoping for) something less natural, you could try passing a regular text-to-speech reader through a vocoder. Not sure yet whether the whole thing could be done in LMMS, so I'll toss a +1 on this thread.

I'll suggest a simple UI for it, too: double or middle click on a note in the piano-roll to edit a text box. LMMS synthesizes the word/phrase/syllable (probably using some existing 3rd party program) and stretches it over the duration of the note, using it as a modulator for the note's carrier. Another input option might be to drag/drop words from a text box onto the piano-roll notes.

[Sti-Jay]

Well, UTAU can sing japanese...