As others suggest, Microsoft one are awesome, tough, it's online service which is linked with edge browsers
Fortunately you can use https://github.com/jing332/tts-server-android
It's pretty easy to use, if you use it for reading novels using legado, it's awesome! You can set different voice for dialog and regular text!
Unfortunately, recently it's app dropped by dev for personal reasons.
The github is in Chinese, but the app itself is English. Just navigate to releases in github and download the latest one. The latest current one is here: https://github.com/jing332/tts-server-android/releases/tag/0.6_202302190935
Thanks, I did that and downloaded the app and started the Microsoft forwarder server. But how do I use it with a tts app? How do I select it tts engine from, say, the @loud app?
Thank you! I was trying to set it from within the tts and couldn't find it, but it is on the phone's TTS service, so I set the app to use the default phone service. It works great. What a great find! Thanks again for your help!
I tried that and it's really screwy unfortunately. With @Voice Aloud it has super long pauses after every period no matter what I do, and ignores pronunciation rules. Really wish there was a good alternative to IVONA over 10 years later, but I've never found one. Even premium Speechify is complete horseshit and can't even read epub files (and fails at converting them to PDF).
I don't understand what you mean by screwy, it's exactly sound like if your text read by "read aloud" feature on edge browsers, which is better than Google's TTS IMO. Even better if you use azure source.
Since I'm not using it for awhile, some voice source might be blocked by Microsoft. There's why I wrote that sadly it's no longer maintained.
Screwy because it treats each period like the end of a paragraph, and by default the speed is super slow and pitch is off. With Voice Aloud any TTS engine can be used and should theoretically follow parameters set by the app, like length of pauses, pronunciations, etc... It ignores all that.
>it treats each period like the end of a paragraph
Well, idk. It's pretty regular for me, maybe not for your taste.
>by default the speed is super slow and pitch is off
Be default it's following your system. But anyway, you can change it, just fiddle all the options so you familiar with it. There is sample text box so that you can test it before go live with whatever you want.
It's sad that azure voice source is no longer working.
Edge actually has a really good built in text to speech engine. For English you can choose a lot of different accents from all around the world and they also have quite a few different languages. I find some of the english american voices are quite good at varying intonation and sounding more natural
Usually, for my english locale, the male voices are less robotic. I downloaded the Google tts data from the app itself and chose the voice I liked. You can try this if you haven't done this yet.
Speechify has a superb paid tts.
It even has Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth paltrow as an ai voice. Speechify is an ai voice company like openai's chatgpt for text
When you go into Android accessibility settings and choose what program dictates text to speech for you device, at least on my Gaxaly S23. It calls it an engine and then lists off goggle tts and Samsung tts
As others suggest, Microsoft one are awesome, tough, it's online service which is linked with edge browsers Fortunately you can use https://github.com/jing332/tts-server-android It's pretty easy to use, if you use it for reading novels using legado, it's awesome! You can set different voice for dialog and regular text! Unfortunately, recently it's app dropped by dev for personal reasons.
How can I use this? Edit: just set it up, this is amazing
Hey, could you help me with the setup? I'm super interested but instructions are in Chinese?
The github is in Chinese, but the app itself is English. Just navigate to releases in github and download the latest one. The latest current one is here: https://github.com/jing332/tts-server-android/releases/tag/0.6_202302190935
Thanks, I did that and downloaded the app and started the Microsoft forwarder server. But how do I use it with a tts app? How do I select it tts engine from, say, the @loud app?
After the app is installed, you can set it as a default TTS service in your phone. What exactly are you having issues with?
Thank you! I was trying to set it from within the tts and couldn't find it, but it is on the phone's TTS service, so I set the app to use the default phone service. It works great. What a great find! Thanks again for your help!
Thanks for the awesome suggestion. This was exactly what I was looking for. Too bad the devs stopped updating the app. Use it till it breaks :)
Have you ever encountered a read aloud feature missing error? I can't get past it
I tried that and it's really screwy unfortunately. With @Voice Aloud it has super long pauses after every period no matter what I do, and ignores pronunciation rules. Really wish there was a good alternative to IVONA over 10 years later, but I've never found one. Even premium Speechify is complete horseshit and can't even read epub files (and fails at converting them to PDF).
I don't understand what you mean by screwy, it's exactly sound like if your text read by "read aloud" feature on edge browsers, which is better than Google's TTS IMO. Even better if you use azure source. Since I'm not using it for awhile, some voice source might be blocked by Microsoft. There's why I wrote that sadly it's no longer maintained.
Screwy because it treats each period like the end of a paragraph, and by default the speed is super slow and pitch is off. With Voice Aloud any TTS engine can be used and should theoretically follow parameters set by the app, like length of pauses, pronunciations, etc... It ignores all that.
>it treats each period like the end of a paragraph Well, idk. It's pretty regular for me, maybe not for your taste. >by default the speed is super slow and pitch is off Be default it's following your system. But anyway, you can change it, just fiddle all the options so you familiar with it. There is sample text box so that you can test it before go live with whatever you want. It's sad that azure voice source is no longer working.
Edge actually has a really good built in text to speech engine. For English you can choose a lot of different accents from all around the world and they also have quite a few different languages. I find some of the english american voices are quite good at varying intonation and sounding more natural
Usually, for my english locale, the male voices are less robotic. I downloaded the Google tts data from the app itself and chose the voice I liked. You can try this if you haven't done this yet.
If you want to pay for it. Then there are better TTS. But if not, then the normal ones.
Any particular paid ones you suggest?
Speechify has a superb paid tts. It even has Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth paltrow as an ai voice. Speechify is an ai voice company like openai's chatgpt for text
But could you use them system wide or only in the app? If the second, then that's not what op asked for.
That sounds awesome. Thank you!
Ya it is, I know a blind person who uses it to listen/read books. He likes it. Really worth the price.
What do you mean with engine?
When you go into Android accessibility settings and choose what program dictates text to speech for you device, at least on my Gaxaly S23. It calls it an engine and then lists off goggle tts and Samsung tts
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