Text to speech programs (TTS)

[Like Ra]

Can anybody recommend good text to speech programs? Both standalone and browser-compatible (think of JavaScript reading from a file).

[Christina]

I use narrator, very easy to use and lots of options.

http://marinersoftware.com/products/narrator/

Quite a long time ago I used books2burn and orator but they were very basic.

[Like Ra]

Narrator and books2burn are for Macs only. And orator does not exist anymore 😟

[Like Ra]

O! MaryTTS http://mary.dfki.de Written in Java (hence platform independent), free, customizable, can be run standalone, and there is an online demo.

On Github: https://github.com/marytts

New voices can be added/created.

[Like Ra]

A list of TTS programs for Linux: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TextToSpeech

[Tinker D]

Years ago, there was a voice printer.
It was a printer, like an old Okidata 128, but it spoke.
Anything you sent to the printer was converted to a voice.
Great toy. But the voice was limited to that of a robot.

[lugnuts]

festival

[Like Ra]

@lugnuts, festival?

[Tinker D]

?????
Ok, I'm lost too.

[lugnuts]

linux tts program