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Old 11-21-2018, 11:57 PM   #1
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Default Speech Software Synthesizer VST SPEEK 3 Works! check it out!

"VST Speek is a speech software synthesizer that emulates the Software Automatic Mouth (SAM) software for Commode 64:

It can be used to create a robotic voice.
It responds to MIDI notes and pitchbend.
It's monophonic and velocity sensitive."

free download @: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/vst-speek-by-wavosaur

Often considered a toy... I think it is much more...

I just downloaded... unzipped... copied the VST to Reaper FX folder within the Plugin folder ----(Make sure it is the linux version... and has: ".so on the end")

Just open it up in under FX in a track... type some letters in and start having fun! This is the type of thing that can really astonish some people!
I use it in some of my recordings... Play with the adjustments or presets.

I know there was a few of these speech software synths in the day... Anybody find any others? Did you get them going in Reaper Native Linux? I want to know! tc
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Old 11-24-2018, 06:49 AM   #2
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Reaper and Ardour is not finding the plugin, which I copied in ~/home/blabla/.vst . When Ardour is starting I see, that it's found while scanning, but I do not find it in the plugin manager.
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Old 11-24-2018, 07:57 AM   #3
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Here the download link:
http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=1863
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Old 11-24-2018, 08:07 AM   #4
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Sorry, I'm on Linux.
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Old 11-24-2018, 08:33 AM   #5
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Problem solved: I didn't download the 64bit version.

https://blog.wavosaur.com/vst-speek-beta-for-linux/
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Old 11-24-2018, 10:44 AM   #6
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Problem solved: I didn't download the 64bit version.

https://blog.wavosaur.com/vst-speek-beta-for-linux/
I grabbed the 64 bit Linux version, but I get no interface with it. The plugin loads into an FX bin, but comes up blank. If I try a different preset, it doesn't redraw the container and leaves junk on screen from the pull down menu which is above the space where the UI should be.

Here's what it looks like after switching to REAPER's generic UI, then back to what should be the normal UI, then selecting a different speech setting. Everything except the proper UI is left in the space where the UI should be. This is on REAPER v5.963 running on Xubuntu 18.04

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Old 11-24-2018, 10:57 AM   #7
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Sorry, I'm on Linux.
Me, too. There are things like LinVst, Wine.
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Old 11-24-2018, 12:24 PM   #8
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Me, too. There are things like LinVst, Wine.
I know, but I want to avoid them if possible.

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Not so much impressed by the plugin... also I can't type anything with the keyboard.
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Old 11-24-2018, 05:21 PM   #9
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Type in emacs, then copy paste.
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Old 11-24-2018, 05:35 PM   #10
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No. Write it down in your notebook, scan it, run ocr, copy-paste to vim, copy-paste to Reaper and you're ready to go.

(alternatively (unfortunately a bit more straightforward) enable "dirty hack" in plugin config menu)
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Old 11-24-2018, 07:31 PM   #11
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Default VST speek... how loaded...

I downloaded the package to 'desktop'...
(the typical brown wrapper unzipped)
it reads:


VstSpeek3-x64so.
tar/gz

I then unzipped it to 'desktop'

That should make the unzipped file look similar to regular linux plugin file or reaper plugin file, and that should read:

VstSpeek3.so

DOUBLE click "REAPER" FOLDER...then DOUBLE CLICK "Plugins" FOLDER... then I just copied it there... (then i copied it to reapers Plug in FOLDER)

should work...

{With Linux Mint I RIGHT clicked on the VstSpeek.so Plugin - entered
'Properties' just to make sure the 'Permissions' read"

Access: Read and write
Group: N/A
Access: Read and write
Access: Read-only
Execute: X Allow executing file as program

If you need to make sure it EXECUTABLE and READ AND WRITE

This is on LINUX MINT 18 OR 19

Hope this helps... I will try to help if you have a snag. I am no pro...
but 2 heads are better than 1 (even if 1 is made out of wood) lol tc
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Old 11-24-2018, 07:34 PM   #12
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Default VstSpeek3

I am not running wine or anything of the like. (no bridging etc.)
It is a '.so' just like my Native Reaper Plugins... .so

should run natively....
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Old 11-24-2018, 08:25 PM   #13
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Default VstSpeek3 GUI

When you copy the plug in into REAPER it should be available in you Reaper Tracks: add FX. When you add VstSpeek3 to the track - it should pop up the VstSpeek3 GUI. Then you should be able to type words into the GUI via your PCs keyboard. And hit play (and/or record), and the text should come out as speech through the speakers. Use the presets... or customize your own. // Funny Lilith93; can ask if you are able to use your Keyboard/Midi controller as well as your PCs typing keyboard? or if you just have a Midi Controller configuration? (I never thought of routing it through a midi controller... will try... tc
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Old 11-24-2018, 08:36 PM   #14
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Default Glennbo...

I will try to emulate whats happening with your UI. When I load the plugin I just get the proper UI. I do not get the Reaper generic UI... Maybe it has to do with permissions in "Properties"? I believe I am using the same linux kernel but not on Ubuntu... 18.04... I am using Mint...will post soon. Anyone else have ideas why his UI is acting like this? My only guess at this point is to - Right click on the VstSpeek3 plugin and check what the 'Permissions' says. Permit read and write as well as executable!? tc
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Old 11-24-2018, 08:59 PM   #15
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I will try to emulate whats happening with your UI. When I load the plugin I just get the proper UI. I do not get the Reaper generic UI... Maybe it has to do with permissions in "Properties"? I believe I am using the same linux kernel but not on Ubuntu... 18.04... I am using Mint...will post soon. Anyone else have ideas why his UI is acting like this? My only guess at this point is to - Right click on the VstSpeek3 plugin and check what the 'Permissions' says. Permit read and write as well as executable!? tc
It comes up totally blank on my system. The reason it has the generic UI is that I switched to that mode, then back and since it isn't drawing the proper interface, it leaves whatever was on screen in the area where the UI should be.

An initial open without doing anything looks like this.

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Old 11-24-2018, 09:34 PM   #16
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does it look like this attachment? Excuse me, first try at attachment.
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does it look like this attachment? Excuse me, first try at attachment.
No. When I add VSTSpeek it looks like the blank grey panel I posted two posts back.
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Old 11-25-2018, 01:21 PM   #18
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It's working now. I just have a small Akai lpk 25, but I'm looking for something bigger the next weeks. 48 keys likely.


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When you copy the plug in into REAPER it should be available in you Reaper Tracks: add FX. When you add VstSpeek3 to the track - it should pop up the VstSpeek3 GUI. Then you should be able to type words into the GUI via your PCs keyboard. And hit play (and/or record), and the text should come out as speech through the speakers. Use the presets... or customize your own. // Funny Lilith93; can ask if you are able to use your Keyboard/Midi controller as well as your PCs typing keyboard? or if you just have a Midi Controller configuration? (I never thought of routing it through a midi controller... will try... tc
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Old 11-25-2018, 05:24 PM   #19
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Default Glad you got it going... lets help Glennbo

It is a great plugin to break out when you have some bored company over... lol.
I am impressed you made your music on an AKAI25... well done.
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Old 11-30-2018, 11:36 PM   #20
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Default Generic GUI is blank... fix?

Under preferences>Plugin>(VST?) or what VSTSpeek is under?:

'DEFAULT VST configuration windows to generic UI (instead of of Plug-in UI)'

I have the above unclicked...! (No X in the Box) so it stays with the
Original Plug-in UI. Hope this helps... so much to learn! tc
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Old 01-31-2019, 12:00 AM   #21
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Gespeaker is nice cross-platform and Open Source GTK+ front-end for the eSpeak speech synthesizer application (xcellent for linux)
https://linux.softpedia.com/get/Mult...er-48445.shtml
You can download through software manager on mint and the like os.
I have not been able to figure out a way to load into Reaper... but its a good stand alone... with like 100 languages male female formants etc.
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Old 01-16-2020, 02:31 PM   #22
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Cool plugin! I get it to speak by writing and hitting "Speak", but I can't get it to react to MIDI. Has anyone managed to contrrol pitch etc with their midi keyboard?
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I haven't tried it thru midi controller... i place the recordings in sampler and piano roll tho - works good there... I will see if I have time will try one day soon.
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Old 01-17-2020, 06:20 AM   #24
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(I'm on windows 10, I should add. Not sure why this thread is in the Linux forums)
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Old 01-19-2020, 06:28 PM   #25
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(I'm on windows 10, I should add. Not sure why this thread is in the Linux forums)
It works on Linux and Reaper.... this is a Linux thread (mainly) I have it loaded up works fine... tc
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Huh, I got it to work somehow. So for anyone interested, yes it works on windows as well.
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Old 03-15-2020, 07:02 AM   #27
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Linux mint 19.03 Cinnamom, Reaper 6.05

Hi,

I just download the x64 Linux version at

https://blog.wavosaur.com/vst-speek-beta-for-linux/

I unzipped it, I put the .so file in the

/home/.vst folder

and, when I open it in Reaper, this is what I see....

How I can fix it?

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How I can fix it?
well you need QT4 libs installed as the gui depends on this..
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thanks, I didn't know.....
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thanks, I didn't know.....
Yea it it usually the GUI - but in reaper you can change the setting I am pretty sure - (generic or Custom) something like that. tc
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