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declan.marks

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Registered: 2016-05-13

Posts: 25

Best TTS engikn

What is the best TTS engine that is natural sounding. I have just installed espeak and it is terrible. I can't even understand what it is saying.

I need TTS because I don't find reading easy. I have used SpeakIt which sounds great but is only browser based. I also want an pdf application that use these voices and read out selected text

nbd

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Registered: 2014-08-04

Posts: 389

Re: Best TTS engikn

I have thought a lot on the topic "why there is no such a thing as a quality TTS engine for Linux". I have come to a conclusion that this sort of software smply doesn't fit well into the model of continued shared efforts on gradual improvement of a free product. Some free quality engines that exist are usually created by some company and usually come as an add-on to some their product.

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x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Best TTS engikn

@declan.marks, with respect to your duplicate thread, I presume that you opened it because of the typo in the thread title. You can use the edit button on your first post to edit the thread title.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Re: Best TTS engikn

This ubuntu thread may give you some ideas.

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nbd

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Registered: 2014-08-04

Posts: 389

Re: Best TTS engikn

Here is described how to use a Firefox browser TTS add-on for reading local PDF files. (Didn't try it, though.)

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