Text to Speech software

[Grizzlly]

Thursday, July 04, 2024  at 17:14, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
Re: Text to Speech software (at least in part)

>On Thu, 2024-07-04 at 07:03 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
>> cepstralcom is no free but low in cost.

I could not fond (short of clicking buy) find the price

>Hi,

>for me it sounds closer to "Stephen Hawkins trying decide on lunch choices",
>than the state of the art in "natural" sounding artificial voices: 

>"Hello, I am Allison. I am Cepstral's premier voice" -
>https://www.cepstral.com/en/demos

>"Howdy, my name is Dallas. In the office, or in the prairie, I'm at home
>just about anywhere." - https://www.cepstral.com/en/demos 

I tried UK English "Millie" (the only UK English female voice) and it sounded 
fairly good, I will try again wit a cut-paste of my actual text just in case 
they preped the words for best effect

Thanks for that

Grizz