Anyone Have A Good English/American Male Voice Synthesizer?

[WatDo]

I can compact all I'd need into a few files if I could just find a good program to use that can do the talking for me. I know there's a few out there but they do not have the ability to save what you type as a wav or mp3 and they do not come cheap.

[zapnosis]

SmartRead will save the sound for you and it's free. Might be worth buying one good "voice" to work with, because free ones require a lot of editing to sound OK. Good luck!

Z

[ParanoidLord]

If you're using Windows, you can separate your writing/recording program from your choice of synthesized voice. There are several "reader" programs that support Microsoft's speech API; the best free one I know of is Balabolka; NaturalReader is also apparently pretty good if you don't mind paying for it. Lots of TTS voices support SAPI, so you can get voices from a variety of vendors and load them into your reading program of choice. I don't know what voices are cutting edge nowadays, but the technology is relatively good these days, so even the cheaper voices should sound moderately human.

I think there are similar APIs/readers for Macintosh and Linux PCs that would allow you to pull this off, but I don't know specifics on those platforms.

[Blagtastic88]

If you need a voice for your words, I would be willing to record a reading of your script and send it back to you for editing instead of monkeying around with a Voice to Text software. It wouldn't be anything professional, but being a native of the midwestern region of the United States I have a neutral accent when speaking English. Just a thought.

[WatDo]

I actually found a way to get a good program along with a few good voices. My favorite so far is Paul from Neo since he speaks so clearly and sounds like a human to some extent. His pacing is pretty good too except for a few words or if you make him read super long sentences.

[Blagtastic88]

Cool! Glad you found a good program to use. Best of luck with file-making.