More natural text-to-speech voices (preferably free!)

mhandelman1 · mhandelman1 #1 (**permalink**)

07-28-2010, 08:32 PM

I'm dong a experiment, where I'm seeing if the computer reading articles, e-books etc., improves my memory, and comprehension of the material. But what is aggravating is that the quality of the (built-in) text-to-speech voices is still not great.

Does anyone know of any text-to-speech voices (preferably available free online) that are more 'natural' sounding than the ones that come with OS 10.4.11 (i.e. the operating system I'm running!)?

hughvane · hughvane #2 (**permalink**)

07-29-2010, 03:53 PM

See if this thread helps your situation ... Are there any free British voices for OSX?.

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Member Since: Jun 26, 2010 Posts: 20	07-28-2010, 08:32 PM I'm dong a experiment, where I'm seeing if the computer reading articles, e-books etc., improves my memory, and comprehension of the material. But what is aggravating is that the quality of the (built-in) text-to-speech voices is still not great. Does anyone know of any text-to-speech voices (preferably available free online) that are more 'natural' sounding than the ones that come with OS 10.4.11 (i.e. the operating system I'm running!)?
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