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| John Picton... |
 Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:28 am |
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OK I know this sounds a bit odd but what I need is a MIDI to speech
converter.
A colleague is working with someone who is blind and what they want to
do is to run a MIDI file through a converter so he can be "told" what
the notes are. Idealy he would step through the file a note at a time.
Any suggestions (or am I just completly barmy!)
Regards
John |
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| Netmask... |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:54 pm |
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John Picton wrote:
Quote: OK I know this sounds a bit odd but what I need is a MIDI to speech
converter.
A colleague is working with someone who is blind and what they want to
do is to run a MIDI file through a converter so he can be "told" what
the notes are. Idealy he would step through the file a note at a time.
Any suggestions (or am I just completly barmy!)
Regards
John
Many sight impaired people have an enhanced sense of hearing together
with either absolute or perfect pitch.
The simple solution is to make a conventional audio recording playing
the note followed by an announcement.
Remember MIDI is merely an instruction not a sound in itself so what you
would need is a speech synthesis device in place of the conventional
wave table that can be triggered by a midi instruction.
Or maybe something like what some disabled people use to speak. |
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| Pete... |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:56 pm |
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In article <rLqdne5GC_y6vSzXnZ2dnUVZ8iGdnZ2d at (no spam) giganews.com>,
John Picton <picton1962 at (no spam) googlemail.com> wrote:
Quote: OK I know this sounds a bit odd but what I need is a MIDI to speech
converter.
A colleague is working with someone who is blind and what they want to
do is to run a MIDI file through a converter so he can be "told" what
the notes are. Idealy he would step through the file a note at a time.
Any suggestions (or am I just completly barmy!)
Has he already got a *text*-to-speech program? There are lots of
freely available midi-to-text apps around (some in a scripting language
like Ruby) -- written one or two myself. So maybe just pipe the output
of one into the input of the other... [Perhaps easier in Linux than that
other OS ( , but...]
The intermediate text produced might need some tweaking, but a script
wouldn't be hard to tweak. (And the script could be made to respond to
keystrokes, so it could be stepped.)
-- Pete --
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