MARY TTS VS Google Cloud Text-to-Speech

I haven't tried any of these myself, so this is FYI only quick search for "open source text to speech" turned up http://mary.dfki.de/, http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm, and https://www.cwu.edu/central-access/reader. Source: over 1 year ago

As far as I know, MARY is the most user-friendly platform that supports German. I've only ever worked with a custom-built system designed for Japanese ALS patients, so I'm afraid I don't have enough personal experience to tell you more. Source: almost 3 years ago

My friend was a contractor for Hindi TTS at Google https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech. - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

I created an Anki Deck with all of the words from Mini Kore and 300+ Mini Kore sentences from the various documents on minilanguage.com. The deck includes audio for all words and sentences. Audio was generated using the Google Text-to-Speech API. The deck can be found here:. Source: 11 months ago

Under the hood, it is powered by: - Remotion - Google TTS - OpenAI. Source: 11 months ago

Text-to-Speech: Lifelike Speech Synthesis  |  Google Cloud. Source: 11 months ago

Thanks! The synth is Dreamtonics' Synthesizer V, using the SOLARIA voice database from Eclipsed Sounds. What really sold it to me was listening to some beautifully crafted covers from this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX0lcVr9ugI), which was quite interesting and somewhat pleasant sounding for spoken word vocals, but didn't really have the range or expressiveness I was looking for. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago