Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Text to speech voice

I am currently writing an article about text-to-speech, and therefore a number of the entries will be about that work. Today, I give you the list of all the voices I know of that can be used for text-to-speech. If you know of others, please let me know. As far as I know, these can all be used with other software such as Balabolka.

List of Voices

11 comments:

  1. Cereproc English voices
    http://www.cereproc.com/

    Nuance Automotive (successors to RealSpeak Solo). These include some languages not available through RealSpeak Solo, including Romanian, Indonesian and Thai:
    http://www.nuance.com/industries/automotive/products/language-portfolio.asp

    Also here's a complete Nuance/ScanSoft RealSpeak Solo list:
    Australian-English Karen
    Australian-English Lee
    Belgian-Dutch Ellen
    Brazilian-Portuguese Raquel
    English-English Daniel
    English-English Emily
    Cantonese Sin-Ji
    Danish Nanna
    Dutch Claire
    Dutch Laura
    French Sebastien
    French Virginie
    French-Canadian Felix
    French-Canadian Julie
    German Steffi
    Italian Silvia
    Japanese Kyoko
    Korean Narae
    Mandarin-Chinese Mei-Ling
    Mexican-Spanish Javier
    Mexican-Spanish Paulina
    Norwegian Nora
    Polish Agata
    Portuguese Madalena
    Russian Katerina
    Spanish (Castilian) Isabel
    Swedish Ingrid
    USA-English Jill
    USA-English Tom
    USA-English Jennifer
    Indian-English Sangeeta
    USA-English Samantha
    Greek Alexandros
    German Yannick
    British-English Serena
    Czech Zuzana
    Taiwanese-Mandarin-Chinese Ya-Ling
    Swedish Alva
    Turkish Aylin
    Norwegian Stine
    Italian Paolo
    Danish Ida
    Spanish (Castilian) Diego
    Spanish (Castilian) Monica
    Catalan Nuria
    Icelandic Ragga
    Finnish Mikko
    Hindi Lekha
    Basque Arantxa
    Scottish-English Fiona
    Irish-English Moira

    So

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  2. Hi Alastair,

    Thanks for this. Perhaps I should have written "Languages" rather than voices, as I am trying to find out what places are covered.

    Best wishes, Ian

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  3. I use the free version of natural reader.
    http://www.naturalreaders.com/

    It has the advantage of reading text within a document rather than having to paste elsewhere.

    Also, Acrobat Reader allows you to read pdfs aloud.

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  4. eSpeak, open-source:
    http://espeak.sourceforge.net/

    Orpheus, the old Dolphin voice:
    http://www.meridian-one.co.uk/

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  5. IVONA voices: you can actually purchase these individually, where most voices need to be purchased with some other software. English, Polish, Welsh, Romanian:
    http://www.ivona.com/voices.php

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  6. The current best text to speech software is Text Speaker. It has customizable pronunciation, reads anything on your screen, and it even has talking reminders. The bundled voices are well priced and sound very human. Easily converts blogs, email, e-books, and more to MP3 or for listening instantly.

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  7. As far as I know, these can all be used with other software such as Balabolka.speech recognition program

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  9. I almost got all RealSpeak Solo voices. Let me know if any of you want to install. Ask me somewhere in private

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