TTS w/ hi-quality natural sounding voices for GNU/Linux

karol · 2010-04-09 07:09:05

There's a bunch of nice text-to-speech apps for Windows, but are there any that could run on Arch? Festival isn't terrible, but it's not good. By good I mean sth along the lines of http://www.expressivo.com It doesn't have to be free, it may be a commercial product.

I've checked out espeak, flite, http://www.cepstral.com/demos and found them all lacking.

Acapela TTS isn't bad, but it's only for Windows and Mac OSX.
A nice list of different voice samples: http://www.nextup.com AT&T Natural Voices aren't available for GNU/Linux

Last edited by karol (2010-04-09 07:09:39)

Ranguvar · 2010-04-09 20:00:36

Specificity would help
How were they lacking, exactly? I mean, beyond just sounding 'worse'.
I'm just curious, but others may be able to help.

Anikom15 · 2010-04-09 20:12:26

Is there a TTS with MS Sam? That guy is awesome!

karol · 2010-04-09 20:12:28

> How were they lacking, exactly? I mean, beyond just sounding 'worse'.
That's it - they sound like a robot. I understand the output (what the program is "saying") but I'm looking for sth more natural sounding.

N30N · 2010-04-11 15:10:14

karol wrote:

By good I mean sth along the lines of http://www.expressivo.com It doesn't have to be free, it may be a commercial product.

The expressivo video sounds terrible. AT&T Natural Voices are the best sounding I know of and is also available for GNU/Linux.

karol · 2010-04-11 15:18:34

Yeah, the video is weird, but in the bottom right-hand corner there's 'Try Expressivo's voices' - they seem to sound better, particularly Amy and Brian.

AT&T Natural Voices - I've heard them some time ago but ... ummm ... I can't get my head around the purchasing part. SDK for $300 - thanks, but I'm looking for a product for the end-user, I'm not a dev.
Am I missing sth?

karol · 2010-06-24 11:20:26

Hello? Anybody here? Dang, I left for only like two months and everybody went home.
If anyone is still interested, Festival w/ the new (voice_cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts) sounds really good.

zowki · 2010-06-24 14:12:41

$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

(this command should work for anyone who installed alsa)
Is that a human or machine? If it is the latter then what voice is it using?

karol · 2010-06-24 14:39:54

:-)
I'm quite sure it's a recorded human voice although I don't have anything to back that claim.

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TTS w/ hi-quality natural sounding voices for GNU/Linux

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