This is late, but thanks for the responses. On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 10:03 PM King Beowulf <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/1/22 11:35, Daniel Ortiz wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Does anyone know of any open source or public domain text to speech that > > allows the speech to be used in videos or more without copyright > > infringement? > > From, Daniel Ortiz > As Rich mentioned, espeak-ng (successor and fork of espeak), is FOSS, > and you can encode in a FOSS audio format (flac, ogg, etc). Note that > the audio produced can still infringe copyright if the original text is > not "free". Although, there might be a legal carve out for assistive > purposes (screen reader for blind, etc). > > > > [ASIDE: There was some hoopla a while back about ebook readers > incorporating text-to-speech that got the audio book people all up in > arms]. > > Here are some options: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESpeak *Recommended* > A free and open-source, cross-platform, compact, software speech > synthesizer. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBROLA *Recommended* > MBROLA is speech synthesis software as a worldwide collaborative > project. The MBROLA software is not a complete speech synthesis system; > the text must first be transformed into phoneme and prosodic information > in MBROLA's format, and separate software (e.g. eSpeakNG) is necessary. > Mbrola voices greatly improve the speech generated from espeak et al. > > > https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ > The Festival Speech Synthesis System offers a general framework for > building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of > various modules. > > > https://freebsoft.org/speechd *Recommended* > Speech Dispatcher project provides a high-level /device independent/ > layer for access to speech synthesis through a simple, stable and well > documented interface. Speechd can be easily configured to use espeak-ng > and mbrolo (for example) to simplify usage. A variety of software (KDE > kmouth, KDE's okular PDF reader, calibre ebook management, mumble VOIP) > have built-in support for speechd. > > > Here's a comparison list (in need of update but still informative): > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_speech_synthesizers > > -Ed > > >
