Ivona is a company specializing in text to speech solutions for app developers. They offer a number of different voices and nationalities in both male and female versions. To demonstrate their rather impressive technology, their website offers a demo of the different voices. You type in any text you like up to 250 characters, select a voice, and press the "play" button to hear the results. Need some spoken word for your next album? Record your browser's audio with a program like Audio Hijack, and you're good to go. I would imagine there are probably restrictions on how audio can be used, so as always, proceed with caution. Be sure to try entering English text and selecting one of the foreign nationalities for interesting results. Of course, if you're like me, you can probably waste hours getting it to say terrible, terrible things.
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Thanks for the hint, Tom! I've already recorded some speech samples using Cycling 74's Soundflower :-)
....then throw it in Melodyne to create melodies.
Audio Hijack is for Mac only. Do you know a similar piece of software for Windows?
@ electrohome: Try JACK ( http://jackaudio.org/ ).
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