# TTS aka text to speech [[areas.text]][[areas.audio]] ## Software ### Speech - balabolka - https://askubuntu.com/questions/53896/natural-sounding-text-to-speech ### Singing - https://www.musicradar.com/news/5-of-the-best-speech-synthesizers-for-robotic-vocal-sounds - https://dreamtonics.com/synthesizerv/ #### VSTs - Alter/EGO - https://vocasphere.net/2020/02/neutrino-neural-singing-synthesizer-available-for-download/ ##### Paid https://emvoiceapp.com/ ## AI - https://www.descript.com/overdub?lyrebird=true - https://adamloving.com/2021/01/08/text-to-singing/ - https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/12/tacotron-2-generating-human-like-speech.html https://www.automated-systems.com/moonbase-alpha-best-text-to-speech-text-to-speech-programs/ boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud - Mozilla Text to Speech (free to use, with pretrained models for 20 languages): https://github.com/mozilla/TTS #linux #mozilla #tts #speech #text​ adnan360@mas.to - Just learned about #Flite #TTS, which is similar to #Festival but written in C and supposed to be much faster. http://www.festvox.org/flite/​ Also has voices for INDIC languages, such as Bengali, Gujrati, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telegu, Punjabi: http://www.festvox.org/flite/packed/flite-2.1/voices/​ en@jlelse.blog - Text-to-speech is becoming more popular https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2022/03/tts​