Text-To-Speech-Simulation?

You probably all know the effect of synthetic voices by text-to-speech systems. (You can find several online in the internet). Did anybody simulate this with Logic 9, done from a "real speaker's" voice. I tried Ringshifter, EVOC 20 Filterbank, EVOC 20 Trackoscillator. It all sounds more as vocoder and/or pitch transposes. Is there a specialist?
Thank You All
Mayerbeer

This would be difficult to simulate. You would need to start with the speaker trying to talk like a computer sounds (make a recording of actual computer speech reading the text, to practice imitating), record some takes, then do some Autotuning to make the voice recording sound a bit more mechanical. Flex Time could also be used to make the timing of words and syllables "quantized".
Would it be applicable for you to just use the Mac's Speech function to read your text, "speak" it (there are lots of computer voices to choose from)", record the output, then use Flex Time to adjust the timing of words and syllables as needed for your project.

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