We have finished the first version of the LilyPond singing support using the Festival speech synthesis system. On the user side it works somewhat similarly to MIDI output: The user inserts a special LilyPond command to lyrics places he wants to sing and by processing the .ly file(s) and calling Festival he receives a synthesized song. Emacs support is provided to help to sing parts of the source file, possibly accompanied by the MIDI output. The whole thing is primarily intended to serve blind and visually impaired users for checking correct placement and notation of lyrics in the LilyPond files they prepare.
Here is a patch against LilyPond 2.11.2:
singing-computer.patch.gz
Description: Binary data
Please note current Festival version contains bugs and lacks some features preventing to synthesize the generated XML files. Appropriate patches are available in http://cvs.freebsoft.org/repository/singing-computer.tar.gz?view=tar . You can also find a README file there containing usage information etc. Regards, Milan Zamazal
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