What I want to figure out is how to make the voice change pitch and sing musical notes.
Back in the 80s we had a program called SAM (which stood for something like "Software Automated Mouth") for the Commodore 64, and you could change the voice's pitch inbetween words or syllables, to make it sing. If we could get our paltry 64k 8-bit computers to do that back when Reagan was in the White House, it should be a breeze on a modern PC that's more powerful than the most powerful supercomputers they had back then!
(Here is a disk image to run in an emulator.)
Back in the 80s we had a program called SAM (which stood for something like "Software Automated Mouth") for the Commodore 64, and you could change the voice's pitch inbetween words or syllables, to make it sing. If we could get our paltry 64k 8-bit computers to do that back when Reagan was in the White House, it should be a breeze on a modern PC that's more powerful than the most powerful supercomputers they had back then!
(Here is a disk image to run in an emulator.)