TTS Recommendations (5)
Can anyone recommend a TTS software/website/service?
A lot of the ones I'm seeing online can't be downloaded, or just sound horrible.
Nope, I'm afraid I don't know of any TTS services that are good, aside from, you know, hiring an actual actor 
If you just want to get a voice reading, you can hack together the Google Translate and TTS apis. The basic query string is
"http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=LANGUAGE&q=WHAT+YOU+WANT+THE+PERS ON+TO+READ"
which you can just type in any browser
It will work for most European languages as well as a few non European ones as well.
So for example, for a British English reading of "Hello World, My Name is John", the string would be
http://translate.google.com/translat...+name+is+John+.
A French Reading would be
http://translate.google.com/translat...+je+suis+Jean+.
A German Reading would be
http://translate.google.com/translat...me+ist+Johann+.
In order to just save this as an audio file very easily, you should be able to use command line CURL or WGET to convert this into an MP3 file.
There should be almost no latency ... this is Google we're talking about.
You can also change the gender, voice, pitch, speed, all of that by adding more parameters
The files are already generated as mp3 in the google thing above.
There is also this site
http://www.acapela-group.com/
To get the mp3, just use chrome and inspect element. Then go to the network tab and grab the mp3 from there.
I was using ispeech for a while there until they took away the download button . Now I just get creative
and once I find my mp3 that I want then I just add it to dewplayer ..
You can try these but I do not know how good the services are or the quality of the audio ..
nextup.com
http://ctrlq.org/listen/
http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/
http://www.yakitome.com/tts -
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