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Russian Conversation Synthesizer

Inspired by our dear friend Ilya, my friend Ron has engineered a little Python script to simulate Russian phone chats with a little help from Microsoft Sam. Ron has slaved over this task for a whole grueling 5 minutes. We proudly named our magnificent product RCS – Russian Conversation Synthesizer.

Not for the faint of heart…

import random
import win32com.client
 
speak = win32com.client.Dispatch('Sapi.SpVoice')
speak.Volume = 100
speak.Rate = 6
speak.Voice = speak.GetVoices('Name=Microsoft Sam').Item(0)
 
while True:
  speak.Speak(random.choice(["blat", "huui", "suukkaa"]))

This lovely script would typically generate an authentic conversation such as:

suukkaa blat blat huui blat suukkaa

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3 Responses to “Russian Conversation Synthesizer”

  1. August 8th, 2009 at 18:57
    Yoni Says:

    For some reason I don’t have Sam installed (and it sounds not-too-Russian with Microsoft Anna). How do I get it?

  2. August 8th, 2009 at 22:14
    kichik Says:

    Seems to be discontinued since Vista. But don’t worry, it doesn’t sound too Russian with Sam either :)

  3. June 19th, 2010 at 3:29
    incomplete Says:

    ‘espeak -v ru’ doesn’t sound too russian either (maybe there exists some updated version), but finnish might sound more russian:
    (although i speak neither russian nor finnish ;) )

    while true; do echo -e “blat blat blat huui huui huui suukkaa suukkaa suukkaa” | tr ‘ ‘ “\n”| shuf | tr “\n” ‘ ‘ | espeak -v fi; done

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