[dba-Tech] Text to speech

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Wed Dec 5 14:59:54 CST 2012


This site may be useful in helping you find something:

http://www.webbie.org.uk/Veli-Pekka/reviews_of_speech_synths.html

On 5 Dec 2012 at 18:22, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:

> Hi All --
> 
> I'd like to make conversion of a set of transcript texts to speech.
> Here is the site
> 
> http://www.text2speech.org/
> 
> which makes rather satisfactory conversion, still I'd like to:
> 
> - have an option to define pronunciation/aliasing pronunciation of some (key)words, e.g. the referred above site does result in 'C#" pronounced as 'c hash" and I'd like it to be pronounced as 'c sharp';
> - have more "human being alike" voice - the 'American Male 2' voice from http://www.text2speech.org/ does sound not bad still it's sounding too artificial and I hope there could be more natural generated voice options available somewhere.
> 
> Free solution preferred but I'd pay for it if it wouldn't be too expensive...
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- Shamil 
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