TextAloud VS eSpeak

TextAloud

NextUp.com develops Windows text to speech (TTS) software applications like TextAloud that let your...

eSpeak

eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for...

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2023-03-27

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2018-11-05

Getting Started with TextAloud 4 (2018)

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to TextAloud and eSpeak)

eSpeak

Text To Speech

45 45%

Text To Speech

55% 55

Speech Recognition

51 51%

Speech Recognition

49% 49

Knowledge Sharing

33 33%

Knowledge Sharing

67% 67

AI

47 47%

AI

53% 53

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, eSpeak should be more popular than TextAloud. It has been mentiond 9 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

TextAloud mentions (1)

FOSS TTS software for windows?
Hi, I’m very enthusiastic about open-source software, and recently I downloaded TextAloud but, realized that I can only get a free-trial before needing to purchase it. Source: over 1 year ago

eSpeak mentions (9)

Does anyone know any good TTS program for linux? I'm hoping for something free. There's a good option on windows, but I tried messing with wine to use it on linux and it wasn't working for me.
You might try espeak or - for something that looks more feature-rich - festival. Source: about 1 year ago
I don't know if I'll be able to stream because of my mutism :((
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
Vocaloid 6
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
Is there a website that reads the custom phonetically written words?
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
How to generate high-quality text-to-speech for free
I use one of the free alternatives: ESpeak. (Linux & Windows only). Source: about 2 years ago