SecondLife: text-to-speech synthesizer

Posted on | September 5, 2006 | No Comments

I just tried out an in-world text-to-speech (tts) synthesizer built by Christian Westbrook from the Electric Sheep Company. the prototype (which can be publicly tried out at Christian’s house) basically translates every message on public chat (=channel #0) into synthesized speech. the resultig audio-sample is streamed to the parcel almost in real-time and can be received by all avatars in presence. the current prototype seems to have problems with simultaneous speeches by several avatars, leading to cut-up samples. due to SecondLife’s audio-architecture, Christian’s script probably won’t work on-the-go, but only connected to particular land (afaik internet audio-streaming is only supported on parcels). still, integrate a decent cross-language translator and – voila – get a cool audio-Babelfish…amazing!

 

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