[dba-Tech] Text to speech

There is an OSS called Festival. It can be made to run with applications or
on the web. It still can be hardly thought of as delivering natural speech.

Here's more: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Text_to_speech

Jim 

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Shamil
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 6:22 AM
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Subject: [dba-Tech] Text to speech

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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