On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:01:51 +0100 (CET) [email protected] wrote: > Hello everyone. > Text to speech... what are your favorite engines/GUIs/voices/settings? > > I am currently working on a project that I will need to use text to speech, I > > have been testing around with Gespeaker, and using settings as follow: > > Language: english_rp > Voice: male > Pitch: 27 > Volume: 89 > Speed: 170 > Delay: 6 > > > It is tolerable for a short period of time, you can listen to it as it speaks > > in a clear way, but the sound has a lot of "hiss" and "roboticness". Is not > something you want to listen for a long period of time. Since the > presentation I am trying to build will be around 10 mins, I was wondering if > one can do something to have a "better voice". I first searched MBrola, but > that is not free software (voices are binary only). I also heard of festival, > > but apparently you can't use it through a GUI, which means it is not very > easy to change settings and make small tests in a single piece of text. > I don't know any other text to speech free software. I would be willing to > use a website that provides a good service as long as it was free (and had no > > words limits, since it is a big presentation). > Or if you know how to improve Gespkear, please let me know :)
I think with espeak you can edit the pronunciation. -- Libere, Pascal Diogo Antunes. "Pour un peu de chair, nous leur ôtons la vie, le soleil, la lumière et le cours de l'existence qui leur était déterminée par la nature."- Plutarque.
