Looking for Best Linux Text to Speech?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Some Cepstral voices are disappointing. If you want to explore their demos,
be sure to consider the voices David and William.  Both are excellent. I
have yet to find a satisfactory female voice among their many downloads.



On Sun, 1 Sep 2013, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> I agree about the Cepstral voices, except they will only give you wav
> output from a textg file. From there it would be: lame to go to mp3, oggenc
> to go to ogg, and sox to go to gsm, etc. Nice  opportunity for a bit of
> bash scripting.
>
>
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2013, John G. Heim wrote:
>
> > The Cepstral voices are excellent. If responsiveness is not important, they
> > are great. It depends on what you consider a reasonable cost.
> >
> >
> > On 08/31/13 19:43, Jim Kutsch, KY2D wrote:
> > > I'm looking for Linux software for good sounding text to speech, either free
> > > or at a reasonable cost. I am not looking for a synthesizer but rather
> > > software to turn text files into sound files in wav, mp3, gsm, etc.
> > > Currently, I'm using the old IBM ViaVoice. Any recommendations?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
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