MIDI-to-Speech Converter?

[Caymus91]

Check out a shareware app I wrote called VocalWriter at:

http:// kaelabs.com. 

It's a GM synth that also sings lyrics. All you do is type the English text
for the notes and VocalWriter will synthesize the vocals. It a MIDI file
player and editor. It also supports real-time MIDI I/O.

I can't pass up an opportunity for a plug, so here's my press release:



VOCALWRITER(tm) RELEASED, FIRST MUSIC SYNTHESIZER TO SING LYRICS

WOODINVILLE, WA, April 6, 1998 - KAE Labs today introduced VocalWriter, the
first music synthesizer to sing lyrics. Released as a software application for
the Power Macintosh, VocalWriter is a MIDI file editor, player and synthesizer
in a single integrated environment.

With the recent development of its breakthrough acoustic modeling technology
called Resonant Articulatory Synthesis (RAS), KAE Labs offers the first
musical instrument that can model the human vocal tract in singing
unrestricted English lyrics. VocalWriter allows computer musicians and
enthusiasts to interactively compose and hear their MIDI music with sung
lyrics. VocalWriter also synthesizes the full General MIDI instrument set,
providing stereo CD-quality instrumental accompaniment to the vocals.

"Until now, everyone's technology has been limited to only instrumental
parts." notes Kathleen Elersich, KAE Labs CEO. "VocalWriter finally breaks
that barrier. For the first time, users can synthesize their music using the
most popular of all musical instruments: sung vocals."

Most of the tasks involved with entering and editing the lyrics have been
automated using VocalWriter's unique music editor. Users simply type the
English lyrics for each note and VocalWriter automatically figures out the
word pronunciation from its on-line 100,000 word phonetic dictionary, the
syllable timing and synchronization, and the required model parameters to sing
the lyrics.

When writing and playing music, vocals have the same real-time behavior as
instrumentals. Users can make Program Changes for new singing voices, enter
Pitch-Bend and Volume controls and various extended vocal controls such as
Brightness, Glide Rate, Chorus and Aspiration Levels. Since the synthesizer is
polyphonic and multi-timbral, music can be scored with more than one vocal
track to provide sung choral parts using different voices.

Besides the full General MIDI instrument set, VocalWriter includes over 85
different singing voice models. The voice range covers models from the complex
but subtle characteristics of human singers to models that extend beyond
physical possibilities like singing musical instruments.

VocalWriter can be downloaded for a free 15-day evaluation from the KAE Labs
web site at HTTP://kaelabs.com. The shareware registration including the
VocalWriter User's Manual is $99 (US).


CONTACT:
   Kathleen Elersich

E_MAIL:
   kae at kaelabs.com

WEB:
   HTTP://kaelabs.com

MAIL:
   KAE Labs
   P.O. Box 1904
   Woodinville, WA  98072-1904