Speech Demo

This page demos the free Festival (text2wave) and commercial Cepstral (swift) text-to-speech engines and some of the voices. Text is first converted to wav audio then encoded to mp3 using lame. View the php source code for this example.

Create Audio

Make some audio...

Type or paste in some text:

Voice & engine (Accent)
1. lawrence cepstral (GB Male) 2. millie cepstral (GB Female) 3. david cepstral (US Male) 4. ked festvox (US/Scottish Male) 5. kal festvox (US Male) 5. rab festvox (GB Male)

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References

• Cepstral - Swift Reference
• Festival - text2wave Reference
• Festvox Resources
• Voice Forge - New Service from Cepstral

Commercial Services

These services have come up in discussion and testing - questions to the list for more information as several participants have used them - with some negative experiences.

• http://www.readspeaker.com/
• http://www.browsealoud.com/
• http://www.sitepal.com/
• http://www.mediasemantics.com/ - the tech powering sitepal