TTS Solution

[sinmaniphel]

Given that several of our specifications talk about Text To Speech, please provide a series of candidate solutions with the following requirements :

• Compatible with Python (if possible > 3) or web service
• Free
• If possible : Open Source

[Netteiram]

First solution

Pyttsx (http://pyttsx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ )

GitHub page : https://github.com/RapidWareTech/pyttsx

[Netteiram]

existing solutions :

• Pyttsx
• gTTS
• eSpeak
• Lexico
• FreeTTS

[Netteiram]

Second solution : Google Text To Speech Based on the Google APP but with some python to make it work

gTTS : https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS

bad points : not working anymore (??? it is still counseled)

[Netteiram]

Third Solution : eSpeak

http://espeak.sourceforge.net/

bad points : written in C

[Netteiram]

Bonus : https://github.com/ramonavaz25/Lexico

Text to speech and speech to text solution

[Netteiram]

http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php

[sinmaniphel]

Pyttsx : stuck because of this issue https://github.com/RapidWareTech/pyttsx/issues/31

[sinmaniphel]

gTTs: basically a curl wrapper, no added value

[sinmaniphel]

$ espeak -s 70 -v fr "Ce que tu entends là c'est Iispiique, facile à installer à potentiellement à utiliser, le rendu est ce qu'il est"

Can be easily installed on a standard distro, easy to parameter, and I suppose that we could put a wrapper around, that would be far more efficient than gTTS

[sinmaniphel]

freetts semble mort

[sinmaniphel]

https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/svoxpico

Uses a native Linux library (libpicotts or something alike), can be wrapped in Python quite efficiently, and is the state of the art standard, being used on Android since 1.6