Hi,


Anyone know a very natural sounding speaking text program? Simple reason I have irlen, dyslexia, adhd, few other labels yet I won’t bore people to death.

Currently doing huge amounts of research I do read yet I sometimes like to hear extremely long academic journals/essays/thesis papers because I can make notes. This is not a extreme issue I can read yet i like hearing too especially my own long articles I write.

Just looking if there’s a nice program out there for text speaking on Linux or maybe something I can easily run through Wine

Thanks
Chelsea

since you specified "very natural" i guess you already tried the ubiquitous espeak (which is best suited to imitate robot sci-fi voices).

i care about a native and free linux solution that doesn't eat all my CPU cycles, and found flite to be very useful. be sure to download some alternative voices also, it makes a big difference. unfortunately i cannot find the voice links now, you have to click around a bit.

edit:
seems voices are included in source tarballs.
or here:
http://festvox.org/packed/festival/2.4/voices/
http://www.festvox.org/flite/packed/flite-2.0/voices/

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Hi thanks, I will check out the second option, I don't robotic voices would be good for me to read over these lengthy documents.

Just got a good graded paper 80% which I'm happy about though I would like to raise that mark especially towards the 90s that my goal

chels

i forgot to specify that of course flite sounds much, much better than espeak.

um, you lost me there.