Switch to Festival TTS instead of Google TTS

martijnrondeel / SpeechBot

A Text-to-Speech Python Telegram bot

MIT License

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Switch to Festival TTS instead of Google TTS #2

Closed satyanash closed 8 years ago

satyanash commented 8 years ago

We could switch to using Festival TTS instead of Google's service. It may not be as fast or accurate but it'll work I guess?

dsposito commented 8 years ago

@satyanash It looks like Google has tightened up its TTS security via captchas. Direct streaming of the MP3 files is no longer working for me - same for you?

martijnrondeel commented 8 years ago

I have experimented a bit with Festival but the audio it creates sounds very robot-like in many cases. Anyone creating a serious TTS bot should definitely consider something else than Google's unofficial TTS 'API', but as I consider this project more as a proof of concept, implementing a real TTS engine would be out of scope.