Tashar59 opened this issue on Dec 03, 2007 · 7 posts
Tashar59 posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 6:23 PM
What is the best now days? Post a link if possible.
geoegress posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 8:32 PM
{ google these }
2nd Speech Center (personal favorite :)(has pronouncing modification abilities)(sap15)
NeoSpeech SAPI5 Voices
AT&T Natural Voices
Kurzweil
SayVoice
Speakonia
TextAloud
Text2Go
naturalreaders (free)
http://www.naturalreaders.com/download.htm
Expressivo
http://www.expressivo.com/buy_now.html
ReadPlease 2000
http://www.readplease.com/
DSPEECH : (most recomended)
http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/
NaturalReader
naturalreaders
Balabolka does lots of languages
Balabolka
smartread only does English and Simplified Chinese
smartread
Speak Clipboard (Open Source for Windowns XP)
Speak Clipboard
Paloth posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 11:31 PM
I'm still waiting for a breakthough in text to speech quality. I was duped into buying the AT@T voices and found them vastly inferior to LH Michelle and LH Michael from the Microsoft freeware, mainly because of the herky-jerky delivery when the words are strung together. If you just want online text read to you, Natural Voice Reader is free and adequate to the task. I think it provides the LH voices, or will tell you where to get them. If you want to burn mp3s of ebooks, search for 'Speak Aloud.' Unlike most of the other programs that convert text to mp3s, Speak Aloud doesn't require Gigabytes of hard drive space to do it.
Download my free stuff here: http://www.renderosity.com/homepage.php?page=2&userid=323368
Lucifer_The_Dark posted Tue, 04 December 2007 at 1:57 AM
http://www.loquendo.com/en/index.htm is pricey but the voices are very good.
Windows 7 64Bit
Poser Pro 2010 SR1
Tashar59 posted Tue, 04 December 2007 at 5:01 AM
Thanks.
I had already tried most of those. They all seem to have that jerky synth sound. The smoothest did seem to be loquendo, but I'm not sure I'm reading the pricing right. $600 for 30 minuts for one voice is a bit ridiculous. Or, it might be only $6.00 I cant tell by the way they have it shown.
Oh well, mabe in a few more years. As is, for now, I'll have to try to re synth some of the others and see if I can smooth them out a bit.
Dennis445 posted Tue, 04 December 2007 at 10:49 PM
Yamaha made a voice engine for singing "VOCALOID" it is a very good product. not sure if you can do just speach.
Tashar59 posted Wed, 05 December 2007 at 8:10 AM
Yeah, I know about that one and I don't know if it can be used for speach only. IIRC it need to be pluged into some type of keyboard or midi system. Most likely to get the pitch for the vocals. It's something I could use for my music but it's not high on the list right now.