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| alessia liberto Newbie United States Joined 4194 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 17 of 22 06 June 2013 at 11:28am | IP Logged | ||
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I just love Text Speaker. I recommend this program to anyone wanting to use text to
speech software to convert text to MP3 or wav files. http://www.deskshare.com/text-to-speech-software.aspx 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5380 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 18 of 22 08 June 2013 at 2:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I searched for a good free Spanish text to speech reader online and could not find one. I am aware of the ones you have to pay for (like IVONA as recommended by sfuqua), but I don't want to pay. Is anyone aware of a decent free Spanish reader?
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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5267 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 19 of 22 08 June 2013 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | ||
Rarely do I use the programs, I find the artificiality of the voices bothersome and even annoying after too long, even though they are much better than a few years ago. Sometimes, only occasionally, whenever I don't want to actually read an article and want to do something else, like work or eat or something that requires divided attention I use the text to speech plug-in on Google Chrome. For a list of several text to voice options try here: Algunas herramientas interesantes para transformar texto en audio y aprovechar en el aula de lenguas extranjeras. Maybe you'll find something useful. Edited by iguanamon on 08 June 2013 at 6:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6444 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 20 of 22 08 June 2013 at 6:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_speech_synthesize rs
I do find TTS output very annoying to listen to, but hopefully the above link helps. Of the free ones, I've slightly used festival. Out of curiosity, I tried setting up Spanish TTS; the easiest thing to get working was espeak. I installed mbrola-es2, and then things like espeak -v mb-es2 -s 130 -f yourtextfilehere work; the default is 160 words per minute, but that's rather fast, and you can change it with the number after -s. Here are instructions on how to install it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5380 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 21 of 22 09 June 2013 at 1:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the input. I installed both the Firefox and Google Chrome add ons. The firefox add on is terrible for Spanish. The Chrome one is actually pretty good and quite usable. I could definitely listen to that voice. It did not occur to me that there may be add ons like this right in the browsers. I tried to install espeak, but could not figure it out.
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4673 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 22 of 22 31 May 2014 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Swedish TTS samples,
I find them all annoying, except for the last voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZUgt6R7iY 1 person has voted this message useful |
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