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Topic # 85152 14-Jun-2011 22:47
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Hi all!

Well Christchurch is still shaking and i'm now have a play with voice text to speech generator.
got to do some thing more than look at the TV falling off the stand :P

any way I'm looking for a really good one that sounds like a person (if they can).
been doing the Google thing for hours today.

So any one know of any good ones?




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  Reply # 481294 15-Jun-2011 08:05
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I use http://www.naturalreaders.com and find it very good.
On their website they have a try it box so you can try out the many different voices available.
I found the standard microsoft voice is pretty good, but it lacked customization ability so it could not learn to pronounce maori words better.
Voices I like, at&t Crystal, acapela Ryan and Heather. These cost money but are worth it if you want a easy to listen to voice.

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  Reply # 481632 15-Jun-2011 21:57
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The best natural voice we have found by far is Australian Lee Voice from nextup.com

Edit: This is one of the Nuance RealSpeak set of voices on the website.

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