Best text to speech software?

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Hi,

I hope this is the correct forum for this thread.

What is, in your opinion, best text to speech software? I am not going to hire someone from Fiverr (although actual natural human reading might be better for marketing) to convert text to audio file.

I know there are some software. It can be paid, I don't care, I just want software that would work with American/UK spelling ...

I am launching a huge content campaign but I also want to convert it into .mp3 or something and put it as a podcast or something.

Thanks!

Don.
 
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Bro search for a software that uses amazon or google speach api. Both are great in terms of natural speech. But you have to pay for api. I have a software which is mine actually. I can give you free license but it uses Windows Speech Engine it is not bad but i don't know if you would like to quality.
 
Balabolka, just look up a tutorial on youtube as you will need to install the voice packs
 
Thank you guys for all the suggestions.

berkay1907 said:
Bro search for a software that uses amazon or google speach api. Both are great in terms of natural speech. But you have to pay for api. I have a software which is mine actually. I can give you free license but it uses Windows Speech Engine it is not bad but i don't know if you would like to quality.
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bullsbears said:
https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ is great. Free tier gives you 5 million characters per month for 12 months. Easily the best.
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Yeah, Amazon Polly looks amazing. The AI is more natural than me reading text out loud ... :D So I decided to stick with Amazon Polly - 5 million characters should be a bit more than enough ... at least for a while ... and then audios onto the LibSyn ;D

Thanks again!
 
TextSpeech Pro works great . high-quality Natural Voices.
 
If Amazon Polly doesnt works out for you, you can try Ice Poseidon s TTS software.
 
bullsbears said:
https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ is great. Free tier gives you 5 million characters per month for 12 months. Easily the best.
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Thanks for the information. Good to know that Amazon has something.
 
Amazon speech recognition is pretty good and they even give you some free credits if you use the API with a new AWS account. Not sure about google have not tried it.
 
If you have an Apple Mac you can have it for free. Simply highlight the content you want to text-to-speech, right click and select Services -> Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track. There you will be able to select which AI voice you want to use, there is like 40 or so. Once you have selected the AI voice, hit save and you are done. The file is saved in your iTunes folder - or any other folder you desire.

Hope this helps.
 
The uses of audio for commands has become popular for use with assistants such as Alexa and Siri, and audio is increasingly being used for search and other tools.

https://www.fusioninformatics.com/iot-application-development-company-detroit-michigan.html
 
I am wondering the effects of natural English speaking person vs a person speaking English as a secondary language( learned in 5 years, Not mother lang)
 
On mac os x:
python 2.7
Code: 
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
import requests
import os
import subprocess
import sys
from tqdm import tqdm
import time,random
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

class WebRequest(object):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        pass

    @property
    def user_agent(self):
        """
        return an User-Agent at random
        :return:
        """
        ua_list = [
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101',
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.122',
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71',
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95',
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.71',
            'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; QQDownload 732; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)',
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0 Opera 9.50',
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0',
            ]
        return random.choice(ua_list)

    @property
    def header(self):
        """
        basic header
        :return:
        """
        return {'User-Agent': self.user_agent,
                'Accept': '*/*',
                'Connection': 'keep-alive'
       }

    def get(self, url, header=None, retry_time=5, timeout=30,
            retry_flag=list(), retry_interval=5, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        get method
        :param url: target url
        :param header: headers
        :param retry_time: retry time when network error
        :param timeout: network timeout
        :param retry_flag: if retry_flag in content. do retry
        :param retry_interval: retry interval(second)
        :param args:
        :param kwargs:
        :return:
        """
        headers = self.header
        if header and isinstance(header, dict):
            headers.update(header)
        while True:
            try:
                html = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=timeout, stream=True)
                print 'content size: %d' % len(html.content)
                if any(f in html.content for f in retry_flag):
                    raise Exception
                if not html.content:
                    print 'content is Null,retry...~' + url
                    raise Exception
                return html
            except Exception as e:
                print(e)
                retry_time -= 1
                if retry_time <= 0:
                    return requests.get("https://www.google.com/")
                time.sleep(retry_interval)
            except exceptions.Timeout as e:
                print(e)
                time.sleep(retry_interval)
            except exceptions.ConnectionError as e:
                print(e)
                time.sleep(retry_interval)
            except exceptions.ConnectTimeout as e:
                print(e)
                time.sleep(retry_interval)
            except exceptions.ReadTimeout as e:
                print(e)
                time.sleep(retry_interval)

def DownloadAudio(url, path, refer=None):
    with open(path, 'wb') as handle:
        if refer:
                hdr = {
                   'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11',
                   'Referer': refer}
        else:
                hdr = {
                   'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11',
                   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
                   'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3',
                   'Accept-Encoding': 'none',
                   'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8',
                   'Connection': 'keep-alive'}
        wr = WebRequest()
        #print hdr
        response = wr.get(url,header=hdr)
        #html = requests.get('https://www.example.com', proxies={"http": "http://{}".format(proxy)})
        #response = requests.get(url, stream=True, headers={'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})
        #print url
        for block in tqdm(response.iter_content(),ascii=True, desc='DownloadAudio'):
            if not block:
                break
            handle.write(block)

def translate(to_translate, to_langage="auto", langage="auto"):
 '''Return the translation using google translate
 you must shortcut the langage you define (French = fr, English = en, Spanish = es, etc...)
 if you don't define anything it will detect it or use english by default
 Example:
 print(translate("salut tu vas bien?", "en"))
 hello you alright?'''
 agents = {'User-Agent':"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)"}
 before_trans = 'class="t0">'
 link = "http://translate.google.com/m?ie=UTF-8&hl=%s&sl=%s&q=%s" % (to_langage, langage, to_translate.replace(" ", "+"))
 request = requests.get(link, headers=agents)
 page = request.content
 #print page
 result = page[page.find(before_trans)+len(before_trans):]
 result = result.split("<")[0]
 return result

tsxt_sen = []
from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize
def sentence_split(sentence):
    text_sen = []
    for s in sentence.split(','):
       # if '?' in s:
       #     tsxt_sen.extend(s.split('?'))
       # elif ',' in s:
       #     tsxt_sen.extend(s.split(','))
       # else:
       text_sen.append(s)
    return tsxt_sen


str = '''
I have a secret to tell you. Come close. Closer.
You don’t have to pay a lot of money to redo your bedroom.
It's way too easy to spend hundreds of dollars buying new blankets, sheets, and pillows from luxury brands, but please don’t. Seriously, Amazon has some genuinely amazing bedding products that are all reasonably priced and loved by literally thousands of people. So whether you’re looking for a new duvet, pillowcases, or whatever, it's worth checking Amazon first.
In case you’re skeptical, here are 18 bedding products with more than 1,000 reviews from happy, happy Amazon customers.
'''


text = ''.join(str).strip().lstrip().rstrip().replace('\n',' ')
with open('./text.txt', 'wb') as handle:
    handle.write(text)

str = str.replace('”','"')
str = str.replace('“','"')


def splitStr(str):
    arr = str.split(' ')
    sz = len(arr)
    return [' '.join(arr[0:sz/2]),' '.join(arr[(sz/2):])]
   

#print splitStr('with wording from North Korea about getting rid of its nuclear weapons and a guarantee from the United States that it would not interfere with the North’s regime or demand redress for human rights abuses.')

keyArr = []
sent_tokenize_list = sent_tokenize(str)
for s in sent_tokenize_list:
    sz = len(' '.join(s.split()))
    if sz <= 190:
        keyArr.append(' '.join(s.split()))
        #print '[ '+' '.join(s.split())+' ]'
    else:
        for ses in s.split(','):
            if len(ses) > 190:
                keyArr.extend(splitStr(ses))
            else:
                keyArr.append(' '.join(ses.split()))


API_URL = "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en-us"
#key = HTMLParser.unescape.__func__(HTMLParser, translate(str,'en'))
#keyArr = sentence_split(str)
 

#print([text[i:i+n] for i in xrange(0, len(text), n)])
os.system('rm ./*.mp3')
namei = 0
for i in keyArr:
    juzi = ' '.join(i.split())
    sz = len(juzi)
    link = API_URL+"&q="+juzi+"&client=tw-ob"
    print link
    path = "./%d.mp3" % namei
    #print path
    DownloadAudio(link,path)
    os.system('file '+path)
    time.sleep(1)
    namei = namei + 1
os.system('cat ./*.mp3 >> full.mp3')
 
Updated to Python3 version.

Although I have no idea what to replace os.system('file '+path) with, since I use windows.
"'file' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

Code: 
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
import requests
import os
import subprocess
import sys
import nltk
nltk.download('punkt')
from tqdm import tqdm
import time,random
from html.parser import HTMLParser
import sys
from importlib import reload
reload(sys)


class WebRequest(object):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        pass

    @property
    def user_agent(self):
        """
        return an User-Agent at random
        :return:
        """
        ua_list = [
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101',
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.122',
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71',
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95',
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.71',
            'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; QQDownload 732; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)',
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0 Opera 9.50',
            'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0',
            ]
        return random.choice(ua_list)

    @property
    def header(self):
        """
        basic header
        :return:
        """
        return {'User-Agent': self.user_agent,
                'Accept': '*/*',
                'Connection': 'keep-alive'
       }

    def get(self, url, header=None, retry_time=5, timeout=30,
            retry_flag=list(), retry_interval=5, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        get method
        :param url: target url
        :param header: headers
        :param retry_time: retry time when network error
        :param timeout: network timeout
        :param retry_flag: if retry_flag in content. do retry
        :param retry_interval: retry interval(second)
        :param args:
        :param kwargs:
        :return:
        """
        headers = self.header
        if header and isinstance(header, dict):
            headers.update(header)
        while True:
            try:
                html = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=timeout, stream=True)
                print('content size: %d' % len(html.content))
                if any(f in html.content for f in retry_flag):
                    raise Exception
                if not html.content:
                    print('content is Null,retry...~' + url)
                    raise Exception
                return html
            except Exception as e:
                print(e)
                retry_time -= 1
                if retry_time <= 0:
                    return requests.get("https://www.google.com/")
                time.sleep(retry_interval)
            except exceptions.Timeout as e:
                print(e)
                time.sleep(retry_interval)
            except exceptions.ConnectionError as e:
                print(e)
                time.sleep(retry_interval)
            except exceptions.ConnectTimeout as e:
                print(e)
                time.sleep(retry_interval)
            except exceptions.ReadTimeout as e:
                print(e)
                time.sleep(retry_interval)

def DownloadAudio(url, path, refer=None):
    with open(path, 'wb') as handle:
        if refer:
                hdr = {
                   'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11',
                   'Referer': refer}
        else:
                hdr = {
                   'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11',
                   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
                   'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3',
                   'Accept-Encoding': 'none',
                   'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8',
                   'Connection': 'keep-alive'}
        wr = WebRequest()
        #print hdr
        response = wr.get(url,header=hdr)
        #html = requests.get('https://www.example.com', proxies={"http": "http://{}".format(proxy)})
        #response = requests.get(url, stream=True, headers={'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})
        #print url
        for block in tqdm(response.iter_content(),ascii=True, desc='DownloadAudio'):
            if not block:
                break
            handle.write(block)

def translate(to_translate, to_langage="auto", langage="auto"):
 '''Return the translation using google translate
 you must shortcut the langage you define (French = fr, English = en, Spanish = es, etc...)
 if you don't define anything it will detect it or use english by default
 Example:
 print(translate("salut tu vas bien?", "en"))
 hello you alright?'''
 agents = {'User-Agent':"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)"}
 before_trans = 'class="t0">'
 link = "http://translate.google.com/m?ie=UTF-8&hl=%s&sl=%s&q=%s" % (to_langage, langage, to_translate.replace(" ", "+"))
 request = requests.get(link, headers=agents)
 page = request.content
 #print page
 result = page[page.find(before_trans)+len(before_trans):]
 result = result.split("<")[0]
 return result

tsxt_sen = []
from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize
def sentence_split(sentence):
    text_sen = []
    for s in sentence.split(','):
       # if '?' in s:
       #     tsxt_sen.extend(s.split('?'))
       # elif ',' in s:
       #     tsxt_sen.extend(s.split(','))
       # else:
       text_sen.append(s)
    return tsxt_sen


str = '''
I have a secret to tell you. Come close. Closer.
You don’t have to pay a lot of money to redo your bedroom.
It's way too easy to spend hundreds of dollars buying new blankets, sheets, and pillows from luxury brands, but please don’t. Seriously, Amazon has some genuinely amazing bedding products that are all reasonably priced and loved by literally thousands of people. So whether you’re looking for a new duvet, pillowcases, or whatever, it's worth checking Amazon first.
In case you’re skeptical, here are 18 bedding products with more than 1,000 reviews from happy, happy Amazon customers.
'''


text = ''.join(str).strip().lstrip().rstrip().replace('\n',' ')
with open('./text.txt', 'wb') as handle:
    handle.write(text.encode())

str = str.replace('”','"')
str = str.replace('“','"')


def splitStr(str):
    arr = str.split(' ')
    sz = len(arr)
    return [' '.join(arr[0:sz/2]),' '.join(arr[(sz/2):])]
   

#print splitStr('with wording from North Korea about getting rid of its nuclear weapons and a guarantee from the United States that it would not interfere with the North’s regime or demand redress for human rights abuses.')

keyArr = []
sent_tokenize_list = sent_tokenize(str)
for s in sent_tokenize_list:
    sz = len(' '.join(s.split()))
    if sz <= 190:
        keyArr.append(' '.join(s.split()))
        #print '[ '+' '.join(s.split())+' ]'
    else:
        for ses in s.split(','):
            if len(ses) > 190:
                keyArr.extend(splitStr(ses))
            else:
                keyArr.append(' '.join(ses.split()))


API_URL = "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en-us"
#key = HTMLParser.unescape.__func__(HTMLParser, translate(str,'en'))
#keyArr = sentence_split(str)


#print([text[i:i+n] for i in xrange(0, len(text), n)])
os.system('del ./*.mp3')
namei = 0
for i in keyArr:
    juzi = ' '.join(i.split())
    sz = len(juzi)
    link = API_URL+"&q="+juzi+"&client=tw-ob"
    print(link)
    path = "./%d.mp3" % namei
    #print path
    DownloadAudio(link,path)
    os.system('file '+path)
    time.sleep(1)
    namei = namei + 1
os.system('cat ./*.mp3 >> full.mp3')
 
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