kedo1981 opened this issue on Nov 02, 2004 ยท 6 posts
Little_Dragon posted Tue, 02 November 2004 at 11:34 AM
Text-to-speech is an interest of mine, and I've been monitoring its technical progress over the last twenty years.
It's true that today even the best TTS comes out a bit stilted and artificial, but they're starting to add inflection and emotion to the algorithms, and it's much improved over the neutral robotic monotones of yesteryear.
AT&T's Natural Voices is up near the top, but you might also consider this remarkable alternative from Rhetorical Systems:
Other options:
Nuance Vocalizer
Elan Speech Sayso
ScanSoft RealSpeak
ScanSoft Speechify