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Re: Show HN: TTS-API - Text-to-speech API

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Post by est »

riobard wrote: post #21

For those who want to run their own copy of this, here's how to do it: 1. Find a Mac-based server (a co-located Mac Mini will be fine) 2. Run `say -o output.wav $TEXT` to generate the voice 3. Compress the WAVE file with `lame` or the system builtin `afconvert` to get the MP3 file. `say` command supports multiple languages and dialects, but you'll have to install the necessary voice engines in OS X 10.8. Man page for…

or on Windows

new file, paste

    createobject("sapi.spvoice").speak("hi world")
save as 1.vbs, then double click it.

Re: Show HN: TTS-API - Text-to-speech API

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Post by username3 »

lefthansolo wrote: post #24

This is a nice one, however I'm still confounded by the lack of progress since bell labs made an online text to speech converter many years ago. Particularly, the notion that the interpretation of each sentence is idempotent is just wrong. Want to see what I mean? A human would not speak like the following; there should be differences in intonation, "emotion" (sounding bored, angry, excited, etc. that varies dependin…

It takes a breath for blank lines or new paragraphs. http://tts-api.com/tts.mp3?q=High%20Quality%0AWe%20believe%2...!

Re: Show HN: TTS-API - Text-to-speech API

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Post by microtherion »

riobard wrote: post #21

For those who want to run their own copy of this, here's how to do it: 1. Find a Mac-based server (a co-located Mac Mini will be fine) 2. Run `say -o output.wav $TEXT` to generate the voice 3. Compress the WAVE file with `lame` or the system builtin `afconvert` to get the MP3 file. `say` command supports multiple languages and dialects, but you'll have to install the necessary voice engines in OS X 10.8. Man page for…

I'm pretty sure if you have lame installed, say can output directly to mp3.

Re: Show HN: TTS-API - Text-to-speech API

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Post by microtherion »

tantalor wrote: post #34

Does it support IPA or SSML[1]? I ask because AT&T's TTS API[2] does, but it kind of sucks! For example, [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_Synthesis_Markup_Languag... [2] http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

Yes, it supports the subset of IPA that more or less maps to English phonemes (Getting a voice talent to produce clicks would be a neat exercise).

Re: Show HN: TTS-API - Text-to-speech API

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Post by kellishaver »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #40

This is a bit off topic, but a related question: I have been looking for a "bad" text to speech library that produces Stephen Hawking-style audio, similar to what's found in old 1970/80s electronics. Examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh0fBwiE4cE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvYvCaAN3Jg Anyone?

On OS X, the "Fred" voice is pretty close.

say -v Fred Hello. My name is Fred.

Re: Show HN: TTS-API - Text-to-speech API

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Post by lobster_johnson »

kellishaver wrote: post #49
lobster_johnson wrote: post #40

This is a bit off topic, but a related question: I have been looking for a "bad" text to speech library that produces Stephen Hawking-style audio, similar to what's found in old 1970/80s electronics. Examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh0fBwiE4cE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvYvCaAN3Jg Anyone?

On OS X, the "Fred" voice is pretty close. say -v Fred Hello. My name is Fred.

Thanks, but I need a library I can use in an app (and not just on OS X).
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