Best text to speech voices [Question]

[MedBooster]

We've already had an extensive speech to text (dictation) discussion: viewtopic.php?t=41066

Well, what about TTS? Maybe anyone has any recommendations on free/open-source voices that would work well in PDF-xce? The native Windows 10 TTS voices aren't that great...

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Hello MedBooster,

If you manage to install these under Windows OS, our PDF Editor will use them.

Regards.

[MedBooster]

Yes and I thought you might have some voice recommendations? That would work well for reading PDFs.
I've tried Balabolka, but it would not work

[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]

Hello MedBooster,

I thought you might have some voice recommendations?

Unfortunately, no. This feature is quite specific for each user.

I've tried Balabolka, but it would not work

Do you mean that it does not appear in the list, even though it is installed under the Windows OS?


Regards.

[MedBooster]

I've found microsoft sapi 5x to sound the least "robotic", though for Sonia for example the intonation seems to be a bit off to me.
Sounds better with the pitch set to -1

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Thanks for the tip, MedBooster.