What's up now

The Alien Machine Band is the project I'm currently working on. It's a band completely integrated by virtual singers: male and female voices, programmed with a particular approach: they shouldn't sound neither very human-like nor too much machine-like, they should rather share the best of both worlds. Another premise is that software for making voices must be open-source, and that's why I'm using espeak, a multi-lingual software speech synthesizer, that speaks texts you write. The cool thing here is that Alien Machine Band takes one step ahead and manipulates these synthesized sound files in a variety of ways to simulate 'singing' voices. I'll be posting these findings (on a more technical side) when results reach a level that may be useful to you; in the meanwhile you can listen to tracks labelled "Alien Machine Band -Track name" within the original track list, to appreciate how things are going. There are good reasons for you to forget that there is a machine behind these voices, but who cares, if you have fun.