Brianlee0311 Posted April 28, 2009 at 12:30 AM Report Share Posted April 28, 2009 at 12:30 AM Hey, Just let you know. Penpiower Chinese Expert is using human-like TTS from Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan. If you don't mind speak with Taiwanese accent. This new TTS is released last year and is male sound only. You also can adjust speaking speed depending on your Chinese level. In addition, it is easy to adjust 多音字/破音字 by your own if you know his pronunciation is not quite right such as "不"要,"不"可. Normally, this kind of technology is based on phrase, and it will show the right pronunciation without adjusting because it has complete phrase database behind to check the right pronunciation. That means if you past the whole sentence or article, it is wise enough to do segmentation and speak correctly. It is free trial. http://www.penpowerinc.com/5_0service/5_1_2_03download_pce.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stranger.blk Posted April 30, 2009 at 08:35 AM Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 at 08:35 AM maybe u can try the new free TTS website www.textvoz.com, u can adjust the speech speech and download the speech mp3 file as u like, it has about 2,0000 chars limit but enough for one article. ps: textvoz has Chinese,Japanese,Korean,English,French,German and Spanish total seven voices for TTS. Admin Note 29/04/2012: Link disabled, the TextVoz site no longer exists, and is now a parked domain for advertising Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluxs Posted June 21, 2009 at 01:08 PM Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 at 01:08 PM Hi, I just tried to get on the link for www.textvoz.com but the site seems to be down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephanhodges Posted June 22, 2009 at 12:38 AM Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 at 12:38 AM Roddy, I see there's a newer version of your Voice Book application. So, what does it cost, and how good is it really? Could you post a short audio? Can it do Classical Chinese (poems, etc). Is there a way to feed it accented pinyin?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted June 22, 2009 at 01:45 AM Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 at 01:45 AM No idea, I lost that app when I had to do a hard reset (it was one of a bunch of apps the guy I'd bought it from put on as a bonus, not part of the OS) of my phone. TTS isn't something I use myself anyway, so don't miss it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atitarev Posted July 12, 2009 at 02:17 AM Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 at 02:17 AM (edited) I like this one (with animations): http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal Quite a few languages and a selection of voices (male/female) Edited July 12, 2009 at 02:36 AM by atitarev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wkfung108 Posted July 23, 2009 at 09:56 PM Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 at 09:56 PM Hello! I'm hoping someone can suggest an online tool that matches this description: I need a tool that will take a block of written Chinese and read it out loud. My problem right now is that while I speak Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), I don't read it at all, and rather than rely on a translation tool like babelfish, I figure if I can just listen to the article in spoken form, I can get the gist of it. Does such a tool exist? Thanks in advance! - Kent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Log Posted September 4, 2009 at 11:26 PM Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 at 11:26 PM Has anyone used NextSpeak? http://www.nextspeak-mandarin.com/eng/speak_2.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilprincipe Posted September 5, 2009 at 04:29 AM Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 at 04:29 AM hello, I have used nextspeach and other tools. So far, the best I have see is a software from Linguatec at http://www.linguatec.de/products/tts/voice_reader. The Home version is not available for donwload, but if you contact them they will send you the CD. the voice sounds much more natural than others I have seen (at least for the price range, which is about 50EUR). sometimes the software hangs, but I am not sure if it is a motherboard compatibility or just a bug..but worth buying it I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westmeadboy Posted March 26, 2010 at 10:14 PM Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 at 10:14 PM I copied the first paragraph from here: http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=142152224 and pasted it into an xtranormal movie and got this: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6317661 Not bad, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members yamail Posted October 29, 2014 at 03:04 AM New Members Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 at 03:04 AM There is a Chinese Text to Speech engine, includes Cantonese and Mandarin voice, http://sevenuc.com/en/tts.html, take a look ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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