Reply To: JoCoDay 2011 Brainstorming
I realised two things about the problems I’ve been having keeping my robot choir in line (how on Earth do you do it with kids, @Colleenky?) Firstly, I know why some lines crash the speech synthesiser: I’m giving it screwed up instructions for some of the mid-syllable pitch changes. Secondly, I realised that even when I get an error turning the speech into a sound file, it still creates the file.
Armed with this knowledge (and the threat of making the robots divide by zero — that always gets to them), I’ve done the last two verses as individual sound files. Let me know if they should be slower or faster or something; all I’d need to do is experiment with the words per minute.