Chipspeech is described as 'Vintage-style speech synthesizer which recreates the sound of famous 80's voice synthesis chips. It features 12 different voices, each with its own characteristic timbre. It is specially tailored for musical needs – simply type in your lyrics, and then play' and is a Text to Speech service. There are more than 10 alternatives to Chipspeech for Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Arch Linux. The best Chipspeech alternative is OpenUTAU, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Chipspeech are VOCALOID, Synthesizer V, RenoidPlayer and UTAU.
OpenUtau is an open source editing environment for UTAU community with modern user experience.
OpenUTAU is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Chipspeech.
OpenUTAU is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Chipspeech.
A powerful synthesizing tool that enables users to create and edit songs by inputting melodies and lyrics, adjusting pronunciations, applying effects like vibrato, and modifying vocal dynamics and tones for a realistic singing experience.
VOCALOID is the most popular commercial alternative to Chipspeech.
Synthesizer V is a vocal synthesizer developed by Kanru Hua, aiming for "artistic perfection of artificial voices".
Renoid is based on the idea of Sato-san, the Renoise-Gate webmaster. Renoid is a virtual singer system using Renoise XRNI or SoundFont SF2 sound library and cascaded pitch-corrector. Through this, virtual singing can be used without any special program.
RenoidPlayer is the most popular Web-based alternative to Chipspeech.
UTAU or Vocal Synthesizer Tool UTAU is a voice-synthesis software developed by Ameya/Ayame and made for the Windows operating system.
Alter/Ego is based on the award winning technology featured in chipspeech but instead of targeting Vintage voice technology, it focuses on more ‘modern’ (1990+) singing synthesis algorithms and research.
DeepVocal is a free to use singing synthesizer application software developed by Boxstar. It is the successor to the Sharpkey Galaxy software, which was a successor to the Sharpkey software.
We're building a Text-to-Voice engine that can sing and speak expressively. We're giving music producers access to the only virtual instrument they lack: the human voice.
eCantorix is a singing synthesis frontend for espeak. It works by using espeak to generate raw speech samples, then adjusting their pitch and length and finally creating a LMMS project file referencing the samples in sync to the input file.
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Alter/Ego is a free version of Chipspeech focused on modern vocals, rather than vintage vocals. Since Alter/Ego and Chipspeech are both made by Plogue, they have similar UI and features. The two engines even share the character "Daisy," who has been sadly discontinued. The main difference between Chipspeech and Alter/Ego is the removal of the "circuit bending" feature found in Chipspeech.