Re: best speech synthesizer
@Dark,
I'd recommend you take a look at acapela UK voices, especially Peter (happy, motivational.)
It is an old dialect spoken in England, but it sounds really nice and it has a good intonation.
Also Ivona is doing a great job on their voices. Check out Ivona Amy UK or Brian, but Amy is the best. Vocaliser expressive Daniel, however, is the one whom I truly consider the best UK voice which pronounces words in a British accent. Again, not real speak, but vocaliser expressive.
I did a few tests with Daniel by using some words that most of the synthesisers mistake them for American pronunciation, and Daniel did a good job. For example, I started with schedule and Daniel says it as it should, (with sh, as in shock, and not with sk, as in skeme). Also, I heard from BBC reporters and some other podcasts saying "privacy", (with an I, not why). so I mean something like privacye.
Also, I find Daniel very comprihensive when reading texts but hon
estly none of the present synthesisers that we use nowadays do not make mistakes. They are stil not able to read symbols in accordance with their intonation. For example, all synthesisers apart from Eloquence cannot give a good intonation when a sentence or a paragraph consists of punctuation marks like exclamation mark or comma.
Something I detest from some companies like google, is the attitude to create TTS whose size is not bigger than 15 MB. Those text-to-speech softwares do not either read those symbols I mentioned above, nor provide integration with shortenings or emoticons that are being widely used everyday. The problem is not memory nowadays, I think, but it is their lack of work and devotion on these synthesisers that make them truly robotic. When I read, I want to hear a voice that can bring on emotions, and you want to really and happily listen to it.
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