Advancements in Text-to-Speech inside CrazyTalk now offer
better quality audio performance with increased natural
human voices supported by many third-party text-to-speech
voice companies. Additional solutions for text driven synthetic
voice performances suited for professional business applications,
home projects, and educational exercises for students. Easily
control voice selection, volume, pitch, and speed parameters
with a simple interface or dynamically using supported development
languages.
Convert typed text to a synthetic human vocal performance
CrazyTalk's Text-to-Speech wizard gives you the ability
to type text or copy text from a document or webpage directly
into CrazyTalk, which is then instantly transformed into
spoken audio by CrazyTalk's Text-to-Speech voice analysis
technology.
Text-to-Speech voices for any voice type
Your text-to-speech vocal performance can be delivered by
multiple voices you may choose to add to your voice library.
Custom text-to-speech voices allow your text to be performed
by Male voice, Female voice, child voice, or character voices
with accents to deliver localized voices for every region
of the world.
SAPI 5 Compatible Voices for High-Quality Text-to-Speech
Text-to-Speech technology is ever advancing in quality and
performance. CrazyTalk brings you up-to-date with the best
in text-to-speech tools with the support of SAPI 5 voices.
SAPI 5 voices provide a smooth synthetic human voice creation
that is easy to understand. Your text-to-speech driven audio
will have a clearer voice that allows you to develop clean
audio from any written text all delivered by a CrazyTalk generated
character. SAPI 5 voice packs are available online for purchase
from the following voice partners.
Text-to-Speech supports many languages
Producing vocal performances from text supporting multiple
languages from around the world is possible through the many
available third-party voice add-ons for CrazyTalk's text-to-speech
voice library. Industry leading text-to-speech voice developers
produce high-quality SAPI 5 compliant voices to support the
multi-cultural global society.
TTS download
If you
wish to use other voice (child, robot, and so on) or a language
other than English, you can download the TTS engines from
TTS engine providers.
For each Voice/Language you need to download *both* a TTS
Engine and a Language Add-on.
Note: The above table of TTS engines are for users of
Windows 2000/ XP.
For Vista user, please download
SAPI 4 zip file (8.04MB) here and follow below installation
steps for your PC.
Step 1) Install spchapi.EXE
Step 2) Install msttsL.EXE
FAQ
1)
How can I use other voice? Such as child voice.
A:
Most TTS engines provide voice add-on. Please visit
their website to find more. After install voice add-on,
you can see all available voices in the drop-down menu.
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Convert typed text to a synthetic human vocal performance
