sing.js

Makes the Mac OS voices sing. Use it from the command line with rhino. Melody in ABC notation.

Command-Line Usage

straight up

rhino sing.js GCEA3 my dog has fleas

with options

rhino sing.js -v Bruce -o -1 -t 0.5 -m melody.txt -l lyrics.txt

help

rhino sing.js --help
Usage: rhino sing.js [opts] [melody] [lyrics...]
  (melody in abc notation, enclosed in quotes if necessary)
    -l, --lyrics FILE                Read lyrics from file
    -m, --melody FILE                Read melody from file
    -n, --hsteps N                   Shift pitch N half-steps
    -o, --octaves N                  Shift pitch N octaves
    -p, --print                      Print phonemes instead of singing
    -t, --tempo N                    Multiply tempo by N
    -v, --voice NAME                 Sing with specified voice

print don't speak

rhino sing.js -p GCEA3 my dog has fleas
~ {W "MY" Undef !Emphatic !CitFunc}
m {D 75; P 392:0}
AY {D 225; P 392:0}
_ {W "DOG" Noun}
d {D 36.1; P 261.6:0}
1AO {D 225; P 261.6:0}
g {D 38.9; P 261.6:0}
~ {W "HAS" Undef !Emphatic !CitFunc}
h {D 35; P 329.6:0}
AE {D 225; P 329.6:0}
z {D 40; P 329.6:0}
_ {W "FLEAS" Noun}
f {D 72; P 440:0}
l {D 45; P 440:0}
1IY {D 675; P 440:0}
z {D 102; P 440:0}
. {D 6}

Thanks

This is written in JavaScript because it uses the excellent abcjs library. Thanks to the authors of it, Gregory Dyke and Paul Rosen.

Thanks also to Greg Beller who showed me how to get detailed phoneme data from the speech synthesizer.

TODO

• add effects (vibrato, staccato, etc)