Text to speech

soundtechdan · Post by **soundtechdan** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:29 pm

hi

I'm looking for something that can do text to speech. I know about shit talker but I want it for mac. I would ideally want to have it as human as possible but if not any old noise that sounds like speech will do.

Anyone help

cheers

i-spy

m:o · Post by **m:o** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:32 pm

quite nice online solution

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

tjwett · Post by **tjwett** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:40 pm

you can just use TextEdit that comes with OS X. just type something and choose Edit > Speech. if you want to save it out then i suggest using Automator, it has a text to audio file action that works great.

the voices in Tiger are shit but the new voice in Leopard is very, very good. sounds real.

StompyJ · Post by **StompyJ** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:42 pm

Open up terminal in OS X.

Input: say "Hello World"

enjoy

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:57 pm

fwiw, this seems like a way you can "upgrade" your OS-specific voices for $30

http://www.cepstral.com/cgi-bin/downloa ... 1124808311

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:19 pm

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

interceptor · Post by **interceptor** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:52 pm

http://nsgn.net/software/say/

It´s simple. Does speed and pitch and saves to aiff.