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More open-source speech synthesis options: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ http://hts-engine.sourceforge.net/ http://hts-engine.

More open-source speech synthesis options: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ http://hts-engine.sourceforge.net/ http://hts-engine.sourceforge.net/ http://mary.dfki.de/ http://mary.dfki.de/

userbinator 11y ago
Mary sounds quite good. Apparently if you know how to write input files in the correct format you can get it to speak much more like a real human by including stress/speed/tone/etc. variations too.
s-macke 11y ago
Perfect moment to mention my little project. http://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam http://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam I have to admit, that the quality is not good. But it also works on embedded systems.
vram22 11y ago
>http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Can't confirm how well espeak works, since I didn't try it, but I have tried pyttsx on Windows. (pyttsx is a Python library which uses SAPI5 on Windows and espeak on Linux.) Worked okay for me. Not tested a lot though. Here's my simple Python snippet for trying pyttsx on Windows: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578839-python-text-to-speech-with-pyttsx/ http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578839-python-text-to-sp... (A commenter on the above ActiveState recipe said my pyttsx recipe worked fine for him with espeak on Crux Linux.) and more details on the same here: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-synthesis-in-python-with-pyttsx.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-synthesis-in-python... "The pyttsx library is a cross-platform wrapper that supports the native text-to-speech libraries of Windows and Linux at least, using SAPI5 on Windows and eSpeak on Linux." Also, check out the synthesized train announcer's voice in my blog post above - somewhat eerie and cool :)
- vram22 11y ago
  And a similar small trial of the reverse problem - speech recognition, using the Python 'speech' library: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-recognition-with-python-speech.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-recognition-with-py...

userbinator 11y ago

Mary sounds quite good. Apparently if you know how to write input files in the correct format you can get it to speak much more like a real human by including stress/speed/tone/etc. variations too.

s-macke 11y ago

Perfect moment to mention my little project. http://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam http://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam I have to admit, that the quality is not good. But it also works on embedded systems.

vram22 11y ago

>http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Can't confirm how well espeak works, since I didn't try it, but I have tried pyttsx on Windows. (pyttsx is a Python library which uses SAPI5 on Windows and espeak on Linux.) Worked okay for me. Not tested a lot though. Here's my simple Python snippet for trying pyttsx on Windows: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578839-python-text-to-speech-with-pyttsx/ http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578839-python-text-to-sp... (A commenter on the above ActiveState recipe said my pyttsx recipe worked fine for him with espeak on Crux Linux.) and more details on the same here: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-synthesis-in-python-with-pyttsx.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-synthesis-in-python... "The pyttsx library is a cross-platform wrapper that supports the native text-to-speech libraries of Windows and Linux at least, using SAPI5 on Windows and eSpeak on Linux." Also, check out the synthesized train announcer's voice in my blog post above - somewhat eerie and cool :)

vram22 11y ago
And a similar small trial of the reverse problem - speech recognition, using the Python 'speech' library: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-recognition-with-python-speech.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-recognition-with-py...