open source text to speech library

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open source text to speech library

Does any one know of a good text to speech library. It needs to be open source and provide C API?

PS: I've already done a search, but I'd like recommendations from people who have actually used these APIs

+5 A:

you can go for Festival worked nice for me.

serioys sam 2009-03-12 07:24:01

Festival is the devil. Took me all day to get it installed on OS X and to try out different voices. All the voices are really crappy quality. Sucks.

Trevor Hartman 2009-12-09 01:00:19

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I have used flite in an embedded server. It has a small footprint and comes with a single voice

JayG 2009-03-12 13:34:35

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eSpeak is another lightweight TTS. More robotty than Festival.

bobince 2009-03-12 15:55:28

now this one is a real bullshit, it's even worse then steve jobs demo in 1989

holms 2010-06-09 23:07:10

+3 A:

Festival is an open source text-to-speech system.

Stanford uses it for their Natural Language Processing class, and they have up-to-date instructions about installation on this cs224s homework page. Installation on Mac OS X requires a couple patches, which they've wrapped into a handy install script.

There are alternate voices you can use which sound noticeably better than the stock ones. You can find information on these voices in this forum post: How to setup more realistic voices in Festival. Those instructions are for Ubuntu, but the voices work with any Festival installation.

Matt G 2009-05-19 11:23:25

oh man that link you've provided is just ASTONISHING!!!!! it's such a realistic voice listen to this!! http://festvox.org/ldom/ldom_com.html

holms 2010-06-09 23:06:26

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