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TEXT-TO-SPEECH

Text-To-Speech is the technology to synthesize natural sounding speech from ordinary text in order to produce human voice.

High quality TTS synthesis can be coupled with a Computer Aided Learning system, and provide a helpful tool to learn a new language.

There are many TTS engines and TTS programs, here are two lists for downloading.

For further information, please read A Short Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Elan Sayso Evaluator is the free software but has highest quality voice. Although it is another program, it is recommended to use with English Transcription as a high quality text-to-speech program.

Download Evaluation (31Mb)

Text Box: Text-To-Speech Engines (in order of quality)
Text Box: Text-To-Speech Programs (use TTS engines to produce human voice)

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Product Name

Provider

Buy

AT&T Natural Voices

AT&T

Yes

ScanSoft RealSpeak

ScanSoft

Yes

Loquendo TTS

Loquendo

Yes

NeoSpeech VoiceText

NeoSpeech

Yes

IBM Text-to-Speech

IBM

Yes

BrightSpeech

Babel Techonologies

Yes

rVoice

Rhetorical Systems

Yes

Nuance Vocalizer

Nuance

Yes

Cepstral

Cepstral

Yes

FlexVoice

Mindmaker

Yes

L&H TruVoice

Lernout & Hauspie

No

Microsoft Speech API 5.1

Microsoft

No

IBM ViaVoice Outloud

IBM

No

Microsoft Speech API 4.0

Microsoft

No

Product Name

Provider

Comment

CoolSpeech

ByteCool

 

2ndSpeechCenter

Zero2000 Software

 

TextAloud MP3

NextUp.com

 

ReadPlease Plus

ReadPlease

 

WillowTALK

Willow Pond

Include Willow Pond TTS Engine