SayWhat

Description

SayWhat is a program which produces random derivations from a context-free grammar, and sends these to a speech synthesizer (Festival or Rsynth) to be pronounced. SayWhat is written in perl, with a command-line interpreter as well as a perl/Tk interface. Support for utterance-history, tree-drawing, and grammar compilation (via Storable::store/retrieve), as well as embedded festival- and perl-literals. SayWhat now includes a rudimentary I/O mode for use with Miller Puckette's "Pure Data" program, as well as an OSC server/client mode.


Plugs

Here are some of the utterances produced by SayWhat:

  • Utter Nonsense #1
  • Utter Nonsense #2
  • Utter Nonsense #3
  • Neighborly Breadfruit
    • Derivation Tree: PNG PostScript
    • Pronunciation
    • Utterance Text:
      pending your birdie inside of a bold blimp nowise tu-whit tu-whoo , each playfulness during whichever three-score cafeterias midst neither perishable National Trust racked up triumphantly sobbingly several ridge tiles ye seven good lookers either or an neighborly rushiest breadfruit down ye voluminous nine days' wonders short of whichever tour plucks up
  • Pizza Whale
    • Derivation Tree: PNG PostScript
    • Pronunciation
    • Utterance Text:
      ye killer whale paused upon gullibly unceremoniously an labored acidic octosyllabic choppier pizza
  • Joycean Fun
    • Derivation Tree PNG PostScript
    • Pronunciation
    • Utterance Text:
      bo , fewer predeterminers trued up an webbing nor diplomatically with either sixtieth hefty sangria minus ye lay squashes following another aerodynamic thin-skinned rueful showier candidate tomorrow ye remand homes excluding other sixteen stockiest malformations unlike the thirteenth downpour persuaded downstage little modal denotations a skilful hybrid rickety tirade opposite a charnel nor our kaleidoscopic stubborn geopolitical fully-grown news agency below her belts find in hugger-mugger the ninetieth adjournment the famous meager blae deaf-mute boisterous toilet paper but then than a select mariner a fetishist bivalve plead with enigmatically serviceably overall those beetroot abaft her thirteen loco dissections notwithstanding a optimum tow-line jazzily but then a xenophobia qua more Near Eastern lower decks steamed noxiously aught sixteen justifiable insidious valves pallidly neither nor these half dozen countermoves via ye passee mnemonics barring thy first glittering meaningfulness dwelled upon uninhibitedly enough sixteen British peccary

Downloads