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Text to Speech (TTS) software allows you to have text read aloud to you. This is useful for struggling readers and for writers, when editing and revising their work. You can also convert eBooks to audiobooks so you can listen to them on long drives.
Does any one know of a good text to speech library. It needs to be open source and provide C API?
PS: I've already done a search, but I'd like recommendations from people who have actually used these APIs
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hhafezhhafez- In general, even with the many open source tools currently available, training up a high quality large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system from scratch is a non-trivial (read pretty complicated) exercise.
- If you are looking for a tool to convert text to speech, you can try VideoTweeter which has the best Text To Speech technology. With the help of VideoTweeter, you can add audio and add massive pictures related to your video subject into your video by one click.
- This is the latest version of smultron which is open source. This version does not work on Lion! The newer version of smultron is sold via the App Store and proprietary.
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Festival is an open source text-to-speech system.
Stanford uses it for their Natural Language Processing class, and they have up-to-date instructions about installation on this cs224s homework page. Installation on Mac OS X requires a couple patches, which they've wrapped into a handy install script.
There are alternate voices you can use which sound noticeably better than the stock ones. You can find information on these voices in this forum post:How to setup more realistic voices in Festival. Those instructions are for Ubuntu, but the voices work with any Festival installation.
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I have used flite in an embedded server. It has a small footprint and comes with a single voice
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eSpeak is another lightweight TTS. More robotty than Festival.
Live text editor for mac. Another ASCII text formatter for Windows is, which can also convert text to and from HTML and clean up emails (remove all the “>” symbols, etc.), and search and replace by words or multiple paragraphs. It can also display ASCII art correctly. Programmer’s Text Editors There are many text editors that provide useful functionality for programmers. Is a Notepad replacement for Windows that allows you to edit many text files quickly from within Windows Explorer and has enhanced functionality for dealing with DIZ and NFO files. For help editing text files in Vi or Vim, see our.
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Hey what about MARY? It looks so awesome to me which one should we push further for open source enterprise computer or androids or whatever? We need to strenghten efforts by shifting all open source resources to the best/most promising we have so far.
Anyone experiences with MARY TTS? Or does it have a flaw (because noone mentioned it before)?More links:
Open Source Text To Speech Mac
http://www.babelfish.org/tts-free.htm.https://www.cereproc.com/en/support/live_demohttp://www.digitalfuturesoft.com/dfttssdk.php (also provides ARM version, like MARY + Festival)
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