Hello, Does anyone have recommendations or suggestions on text to speech programs we can use for narration within our e-learning modules? I have looked at a few, but what is everyone else using?
May be you can take a look at Voxygen TextToSpeech Engine. to see if it feets your need for narration. Personaly i like the way their voices are expressive and far from the robotic style. look at some of their android Apps
I've used a Media Semantics product called Character Builder. It comes with a few Neospeech voices and several others as well. It's not the greatest, but can get the job done and in multiple languages and gives your course an avatar (if you're into that kind of build). You can adjust length of pauses and tweak some of the phonetics within the program, but it's far from perfect. At the end of the day most any TTS programs will end up sounding somewhat robotic, but it might be an option for you. Good luck!
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I don't like using TTS audio at all, because they still sound too robotic (at least to my ears) but if required I use Neospeech.
May be you can take a look at Voxygen TextToSpeech Engine. to see if it feets your need for narration. Personaly i like the way their voices are expressive and far from the robotic style. look at some of their android Apps
Thanks for sharing Thomas :)
I've used a Media Semantics product called Character Builder. It comes with a few Neospeech voices and several others as well. It's not the greatest, but can get the job done and in multiple languages and gives your course an avatar (if you're into that kind of build). You can adjust length of pauses and tweak some of the phonetics within the program, but it's far from perfect. At the end of the day most any TTS programs will end up sounding somewhat robotic, but it might be an option for you. Good luck!
Here is a thread with many Engines out there.
Personally I've been using iSpeech text to speech API, that's my personal preference they provide great support.
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