Balabolka VS eSpeak

Balabolka already uses the MS-SAPI on Window, but you would need to wrap that functionality as a VST Http://cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm. Source: 12 months ago

Brilliant. obviously, they'll work with your screen reader. If you want to turn documents into audio with them, Balabolka will provide you m4b's for apple or mp3's for other platforms, all with imbedded text/lyrics. Source: over 1 year ago

You might try espeak or - for something that looks more feature-rich - festival. Source: about 1 year ago

Hey! I’m mute too and I’ve been wanting to stream. So far I’ve decided on using eSpeak https://espeak.sourceforge.net/, a text-to-speech app for PC that allows commercial usage. You might also be able to find online text-to-speech that allows commercial usage, it just might take awhile to find. Depending on the time of content you make you could also dedicate part of your layout to a spot you could type in and... Source: about 1 year ago

Can someone point to a good open source alternative for vocaloid? I know of Sinsy [0] but I couldn't get it working. Ecantorix [1] is very old and rudimentary (it uses espeak underneath [2]). Searching just now I see OpenUtau [3] but I have no experience with it. Seems crazy there isn't a good FOSS solution for this. [0] http://www.sinsy.jp/ [1] https://github.com/divVerent/ecantorix [2]... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

The closest that I know of is espeak, https://espeak.sourceforge.net/ . It certainly doesn't cover all of the IPA though. Source: over 1 year ago

I use one of the free alternatives: ESpeak. (Linux & Windows only). Source: about 2 years ago