Re: best speech synthesizer
I tend to switch synthesizers and languages all the time. On the Mac side of things. I'm usually using either Alex or Monica Compact. Monica Compact isn't all that natural, but I like the fact that it can go quite damn fast and still be perfectly understandable for a Vocalizer voice. Eloquence Spanish honestly sounds very very weird, especially the intonation which makes it sound like a very angry and depressed person if you listen to it carefully, but loads of people still use it, including myself. I do like Eloquence US English, but I've never liked the UK one. ESpeak has the opposte problem, the UK voice is OK and is very understandable and responsive, but the US voice honestly sounds fake as hell.
I like natural voices for reading articles and books and such, so I usually go for either Vocalizer or Acapela when I can. They have great voices, although t
heir Spanish ones are outdated as hell. The one thing they do have is a Catalan voice, which I'm thinking of buying at some point in my life.
I also like older versions of DECtalk, their intonation and voice quality are very nice.
If we go into older weirder synthesizers, I really love Keynote Gold, although it's pretty much impossible to use that on a newer system. I also like the Doubletalk. it's intonation has a very strange pattern, but the voice quality is just great. Also bassy as hell. I'm actually trying to get a hold of one of those.
Another synth that I kind of like is Audiologic, which is very rare. I only have it on my Sonobraille, which is a spanish notetaker. I can use it as a synthesizer under Windows, but I'm wondering if anyone here has the libraries to use it with NVDA. I know there is a driver for it, I even had the sou
rce somewhere, but it does require some DLLs. Maybe someone from Italy in this community can help me find it.
To be honest with you I actually used to like Orpheus's intonation. I would actually be using synthetic dave quite a lot more if they hadn't made him all monotone and meh in newer versions. You can still adjust the intonation somewhat but you can't get the full sound of older versions.
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