software-recommendationtext to speech
I am looking for some easy to install text to speech software for Ubuntu that sounds natural. I’ve installed Festival
, Gespeaker
, etc., but nothing sounds very natural. All very synthetic and hard to understand.
Any recommendations out there?
Accepted Answer
SVOX pico2wave
A very minimalistic TTS, a better sounding than espeak or mbrola (to my mind). Some information here.
I don’t understand why pico2wave is, compared to espeak or mbrola, rarely discussed. It’s small, but sounds really good (natural). Without modification you’ll hear a natural sounding female voice.
AND … compared to Mbrola, it recognise Units and speaks it the right way!
For example:
- 2°C → two degrees
- 2m → two meters
- 2kg → two kilograms
After installation I use it in a script:
#!/bin/bash
pico2wave -w=/tmp/test.wav "$1"
aplay /tmp/test.wav
rm /tmp/test.wav
Then run it with the desired text:
<scriptname>.sh "hello world"
or read the contents of an entire file:
<scriptname>.sh "$(cat <filename>)"
That’s all to have a lightweight, stable working TTS on Ubuntu.
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