Can anybody recommend good text to speech programs? Both standalone and browser-compatible (think of JavaScript reading from a file).
	
	
	
	
	
	
Text to speech programs (TTS)
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		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. 
		Narrator and books2burn are for Macs only. And orator does not exist anymore 😟
	 
	
	
	
	
	
		O! MaryTTS http://mary.dfki.de   Written in Java (hence platform independent), free, customizable, can be run standalone, and there is an online demo. 
	
	
	
	
(This post was last modified: 28 Sep 2017, 12:59  by Like Ra.)
	
On Github: https://github.com/marytts New voices can be added/created. 
		A list of TTS programs for Linux: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TextToSpeech
	 
	
	
	
	
	
		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. 
		festival
	 
	
	
	
	
	
		@lugnuts, festival?
	 
	
	
	
	
	
		????? 
	
	
	
	
	
Ok, I'm lost too. 
		linux tts program
	 
	
	
	
	
	
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