Audacity Forum

Thanks for your insights. Steve, all the slowing down I've done is inside Festival, not after. Unfortunately, I can't massage the audio by hand after it's made, since everything needs to be completely automated in this application. The user sets some parameters, clicks a button, and it outputs a uni...

Hi Gale, Thanks for your suggestions. I'll play around with the dynamics, and see if that helps. Here are a couple sample files. 1.wav is the raw output from the Festival voice I am using. 2.wav is after some small reverb and a lowpass filter ("sox 1.wav 2.wav reverb 20 20 lowpass -1 2500"), but it'...

Hi-- I'm working on a project that involves synthesized speech, and I'm producing this speech with Festival . Like a lot of computer generated speech, the result sounds kind of harsh, with abrupt breaks between different sounds. I'm wondering if there's a method for smoothing this kind of thing out?...