moike

I am building a patch that uses aka.speech to take sentences typed into the computer and plays them back as a computer voice. I have been able to set this up, but I would like to go further and be able to edit the output of aka.speech, meaning adding delay/echo/distortion/all the fun audio tricks max is capable of. Does anyone know how to do this? It is my understanding that aka.speech uses the computers speech programs to output the sound, I was advised to try and use soundflower but I'm not exactly sure how. Thoughts?

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aka.speech isn't an MSP object, so it's not producing outlets you can pass through other MSP objects. Aka.speech simply talks directly to Apple's speech synthesis API in the OS.

You can grab the speech synthesis output using Jack or Soundflower or some other tool for rerouting system sound output back into Max/MSP. However, you'll have to take care not to mix your processed output with the same audio stream that the OS is using for the speech synthesis, otherwise you'll get instant feedback (an interesting form of distortion, but I suspect not what you want).

Thanks. I have Soundflower, but I don't really understand how it reroutes sound, whenever I open the audiosetup it only shows my default inputs and outputs, I have no idea how to find the Voice API on my mac or MAX. Any ideas?

You need to output your mac system through soundflower.

And then you take soundflower iputs into max.

And output max through your built-in output for instance.

You need to output your mac system through soundflower.
And then you take soundflower iputs into max.
And output max through your built-in output for instance.

genius has been done in this thread! It is appreciated. Sorry for resurrect 0,o

Any way to get that specific audio return into an outlet of a modified external (make an MSP version)? Would be nice to separate that from the entire system output so you could effect only the voice will letting the rest of the system audio pass completely dry.

distorting aka.speech