looking for sound resourses

Anyone know a good place to get some voice resources…for free? A lot I do myself, but female voices or a scottish accent seem to be beyond my ability :).

They do not need to be long lines, just some quips like ‘hello’ ‘not now’ little stuff like that. I’ll work with what I can find.

Phone a friend… Yeah. You’d be surprised how many nationalities are represented here in the BA forums. Chances are someone here will be able to do it.
That or you can use espeak (If you don’t mind it sounding pretty bad)

CG Sky has a great German accent.

I will add my two cents:

Free, not-so-great speech generator:
http://www.text2speech.org/

Free mix of voices:
http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/voices-1.html

Other voices:
http://soundbible.com/tags-woman.html

Hope that helps.

Some resources that might help:
freesound.org
opengameart.org

I have literally been to every link provided already :slight_smile:
OK, so time to get good at scottish accents I guess…as for german…that is not an issue, I live in germany :slight_smile:

Youtube can also be great. Search something like “royalty free [keyword] sounds” and see you what you come up with. You’ll often find download links in the descriptions.

For text to speech software I recommend TextAloud 3. It sounds so naturally and there are a lot of settings to use. Problem is it’s not free. $30 for the full version or you can use the free 30 day trial to test it out.

Thank you I will try both…I had avoided textToSpeech program as they have mostly been robotic in the sentence inflections…single words come out ok, but put two or three together and…eeewww…but I will check that and youtube.

EDIT: I am on Linux so that software is no good…thanks anyway…on to youtube :slight_smile:

You’re welcome. I found that software a while ago on another forum with someone looking for the same thing. If I remember correctly someone suggested a few good Linux options. I’ll try to dig it up…

edit:
here it is: https://superuser.com/questions/518448/realistic-voice-for-text-to-speech

It’s ok, I’ve come to the conclusion I need to do it myself…I got a few sounds from OpenGameArt.org and the rest will just be me and any one I can get to do some clips for me. Thanks guys.