{"id":90,"date":"2016-07-24T04:26:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T04:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/?p=90"},"modified":"2016-07-24T04:30:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T04:30:11","slug":"more-choices-for-tts-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"More choices for TTS engines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a mostly complete list of offline text-to-speech engines I have at my disposal. \u00c2\u00a0I have cleaned up the text somewhat from the last time, so they\u00c2\u00a0should be easier to understand. \u00c2\u00a0Let me know what your favorite is in the comments.<\/p>\n

Espeak<\/a> is a very robotic, but relatively lightweight engine:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/espeak_out.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

Festival<\/a> is a quirky, but also lightweight engine. \u00c2\u00a0It was developed at the University of Edinburg, so it has a distinctly Scottish accent, which is cool:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/festival_out.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

Pico was developed by a company called SVOX, and was chosen by\u00c2\u00a0Google to be\u00c2\u00a0the voice of Android 1.6 “Donut”:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pico_out.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

There is also Festival Light<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0developed at CMU, it has a variety of voices available to it:<\/p>\n

AWB:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/flite_awb_out.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

KAL16:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/flite_kal16_out.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

KAL:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/flite_kal_out.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

RMS:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/flite_rms_out.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

SLT:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/flite_slt_out.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a mostly complete list of offline text-to-speech engines I have at my disposal. \u00c2\u00a0I have cleaned up the text somewhat from the last time, so they\u00c2\u00a0should be easier to understand. \u00c2\u00a0Let me know what your favorite is in the comments. Espeak is a very robotic, but relatively lightweight engine: Festival is a quirky, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brains","category-mouth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}