A few open-source 'engines' exist, though they need to be 'trained', and to make a usable package you still need to add a lot of items yourself.
Do be aware that these are NOT small packages, and the average "voice" can run out anywhere between 600-800 MB, each.Īlthough you can find equivalents for pretty much anything on our side of the fence, text-to-speech is one of the very few areas where Linux is NOT well represented, and Linux TTS software is nearly non-existent. I found a free source for some of the AT&T "NaturalVoices" from a few years ago.
The good news is that once everything's in place, these do work very well.even though these are the older-type, less 'natural-sounding' voices than what we have available today. You have to install a few Windows items into WINE, then you need to install voices as part of the "back-end" stuff before installing the apps themselves. They're all Windows apps, running under WINE.TTS Reader, Balabolka, and what was at one time the "industry standard", TextAloud!
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