In case I've missed something worth a look, please share. LumenVox TTS : looks like coming from a background with lots of speech tools, but still results in robotic voices. AT&T : decent fluency, but got problems with sentence endings and too much robo! plus the enhanced voices give the good ol' crappy result, so, except ~5 more voices, nothing have been enhanced. I bet Japanese guys aren't very happy about it. iSpeech : good laugh when setting the voice to Japanese with English text. Natural Reader (dumb autoplay!!) : well, it got some fluency, but still that techy feeling kicks in. eSpeak : one of the best robots out there, hence the program logo(?!) Nuance Vocalizer : while still lacks variety, some of the provided voices are worthy.Ĭould as well cooperate to get more resources then to work on different, but almost equal products (-) Loquendo : lacks voice variety, got some minor apex/fluency problems (depends on sentence), too much coughing and excuses in examples! (Possible that those do not apply to fluency, but I'm not native English, please excuse me if that's the case.) A list of tools I've looked into: Quite impressive, but still have space for improvements (++) Oh, under fluency I'm hiding questions, exclamations and so on. A LOT! Therefore resulting in a pretty profitable product.
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cutting off the apex, that's not a small deal! Plus, have to keep in mind, that a good, quality Text-to-Speech software is worth, well. And yes, while people are working on such tools, I wonder, what keeps them from working a little more to improve those. Feels like there's a problem with sentence construction or something. For example, there are these tools out there, that use to cut off apex of words, resulting in these techy voices. The thing that bothers me the most, is, quality.
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Plus, the good ol' PC is a machine - machines don't have emotions, but that's a different story. My guess about the problem behind the emotional aspect - it's hard to judge emotions from plain text, even more if it's just a sentence or two. Some tools allow you to set the reading speed and pitch', but that's not enough. Most Text-to-Speech tools have too techy, robotic - in other words, bad quality c voices.Īnd yeah, on top of that, it looks like they come with a "hard-coded" voice templates, therefore shortening the variety/customization. After looking at some of services/tools, I've come to a conclusion.
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