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CharleyGarrett
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Speak a few words
« on: Jul 21st, 2004, 1:26am » |
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I have a composition where I want the singing to be interrupted for a few spoken words. My first attempt was to just just some note, and then try to figure out the rhythm in eighth notes, etc. but that is unacceptable.
Is there a better way to do this? 
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Re: Speak a few words
« Reply #1 on: Jul 21st, 2004, 1:33am » |
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Then I tried changing the staff type to a text staff. This gave me some random pitches, and rhythms (which I feel was better, but, is that as good as it gets?
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Re: Speak a few words
« Reply #2 on: Jul 21st, 2004, 1:52am » |
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And another thing. I edit the words on the Text staff form "Tell me you love me" to "Tell me you love me O K". After that edit, it no longer speaks the words "Tell me you love me" but only the words "O" and "K".
What's up with that? Is that a bug?
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Re: Speak a few words
« Reply #3 on: Jul 21st, 2004, 4:24am » |
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I did a similar attempt some time ago. but added Effect Marks to produce rising and falling pitch and volume. Parameter Curves would probably be a better way to do that.
http://www.shreve.net/~joelrea/SpeechTest.myr
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Re: Speak a few words
« Reply #4 on: Jul 21st, 2004, 6:02pm » |
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Charley wrote Quote:| After that edit, it no longer speaks the words "Tell me you love me" but only the words "O" and "K". |
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I don't think that's a bug. Rather, when you edited words directly on the lyrics line, you may have done something that did not produce the result you intended. I have found that editing directly on the lyrics line is very tricky, in some cases.
Use the little black triangle at left of the staff to open its menu box. Select "edit lyrics." Look at how the lyrics relate to the measures (the slash / is a measure bar, in the lyrics editor). Does it look correct? Are there any extra spaces, or missing spaces, or missing measure bars, or extra measure bars, or nonbreaking spaces (^) that do not belong? Did you inadvertently insert SAMPA or fragments using incorrect syntax? Did you spell a word so badly that the dictionary doesn't know what to do?
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Re: Speak a few words
« Reply #5 on: Jul 22nd, 2004, 1:18am » |
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 I did use Staff>Edit Lyrics to insure that there were no ^ or = (vs the normal -) which can so easily pop in there when you do edit directly on the lyric line (that's a bug, right?)
But no, they were all just normal looking text, but the engine just skipped all the words that had been spoken previously, and merely spoke the letters.
So, I change the letters in to words. O-kay. I probably could have done Oh Kay too.
I'm still not really satisfied with it. I may go to a wav recording of the spoken text. Then I'll have to figure out a way to synchronize it with the Virtual singing quartet.
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Re: Speak a few words
« Reply #6 on: Jul 22nd, 2004, 1:25am » |
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on Jul 22nd, 2004, 1:18am, CharleyGarrett wrote:| I may go to a wav recording of the spoken text. Then I'll have to figure out a way to synchronize it with the Virtual singing quartet. |
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I had to do that once, and if that may be of some help, make your wav a user instrument, create a staff, put a note down where you want that short phrase to be heard and it will be in synch with the rest.
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Re: Speak a few words
« Reply #7 on: Jul 22nd, 2004, 1:49am » |
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I'll try that.
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