Does anyone know what software is behind the speech synthesis feature on Google Translate - it does a pretty good job in a number of languages.
I'm not sure but I found;
eSpeak
eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for
English and other languages, for Linux and Windows.
Referance : Google Translate Adds Text-to-Speech for More Languages
Google has their own technology. If they would tell us how they do everything, no one would use their services anymore.
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In my application, I am already using Google TTS but I am amazed by Microsoft TTS because they are providing a lot more useful attributes than Google. Since I am more familiar with Google, I would like to keep my implementation but would still like to be able to use MS attributes like:
<mstts:express-as style="cheerful">
That'd be just amazing!
</mstts:express-as>
Is that possible?
There are no style attributes in Google Text-to-Speech, but you can change the Standard voice to a WaveNet voice[1].
The WaveNet voice synthesizes speech with more human-like emphasis and inflection on syllables, phonemes, and words. You can see all the supported voices in Google Text-to-Speech[2].
[1]https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/wavenet#wavenet_voices
[2]https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices
Is there any opensource library that I could use to feed the letters and sounds and produce a text to speech system.
What must I do to start from scratch? Python would be my language of choice so where must I be headed to develop my own text to speech in my language.
Here's a list of a few Open Source TTS engines:
MBrola
FreeTTS
Festival Speech Synthesis
FLite
Festvox
GnuSpeech
Epos Speech
Maybe one of the covers what you're looking for.
text-to-speech for English language using Visual Basic 2008
Dim speech speech = CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
speech.speak(TextBox1.Text)
My question, how this can be used for arabic languages ?
thanks
From a Microsoft support article:
"Microsoft does not provide additional speech engines (voices), but a number of third-party products are available that support the new Microsoft Speech API. For information on these products, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/speech/evaluation/thirdparty/engines.mspx"
Only problem is, that website seems to be down. If you do a search for third-party engines, you'll see a lot of links to that site, too. I'd try to hunt down if it still exists, or try to look for the specific third-party engine you'd need to support Arabic.
No there is no Arabic TTS SAPI available either from MS or third party softwares after searching for long time .
their many online services even few software that support Arabic TTS
Like Acapela which is working only with their software no third party support .
Anyway I think that will not support that much in your project . only if the case you need an Audio output for the text file , not to deal with it interactivity .
Edit==
I just found another software Nuance Vocalizer Voice packs you can found the package here . and this is the Official site .according to the first source it Support SAPI .
I am trying to make a html page including TTS - Text to Speech Synthesis System feature. Please suggest me some online good demos.
Also please let me know if google is providing any api for TTS - Text to Speech Synthesis System.
Thanks a lot.
Unofficial Google API and the limit is 100 characters
http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=Hello+Sanket
I want to have an action performed whenever the user (while using Vista voice recognition) says "Wingbats are crazy!". How do I do this? Is there scripting or is there a dll to tie into?
You might want to check out the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI). I used this in Windows XP a while ago and it supports an XML markup that declares the command(s) that you want the system to recognise. Your application then determines what needs to happen when a speech command is recognised.
For speech recognition, check out the ISpRecoContext interface.
Previously this was a COM interface, but since Vista you can use .NET. Or apparently you can use Python if that's your preference!
Edit
Microsoft Speech Server 2007 supports VoiceXML, mentioned in another response to this question.
I would recommend the WSR Macro toolkit. It lets you easily integrate your custom scripts into the Windows Speech Recognition system. SAPI and System.Speech.Recognition are great if you need more control, but given your question, I suspect that the learning curve will be much easier with WSR Macros.
Check out Voice XML. A list of systems implementing the standard can be found on w3.org.