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TTS voices that sound nice? (thorsten-voice.de)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are multiple screenreaders but their voices simply suck. KDEs espeak has way worse voices than Android eSpeak for some reason.

There is Thorsten Voice, a grest project that sounds really nice.

Not sure if he has a espeak dataset too.

Do you know any others?

Its essential for blind people, I dont think any blind person uses Linux if they have to hear these robot voices every day.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you don't mind doing some development work, needing online connectivity, and paying for usage, AWS's Polly has some very good sounding TTS voices: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Hm, as a backup that could be okay, but not working offline /without being a huge privacy problem...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Just please don't use one of the kid voices for technical videos, a la babywogue and their GNOME development videos.