Cognable
Speech Demo
TTS Test
Use the following to test the supported voices and parsing, text or html input is acceptable. Optional post processing through Sox can improve some of the harsher voices.
Input is parsed only basically by default, headings are noted and acronyms and abbreviations are expanded. Additional elements suchs as forms, lists, addresses, tables and links are announced if the semantic annotation checkbox is ticked. Forms and tables are not reliably processed currently, their presence is noted to the listener but content is simply linearized.
Commercial voices are also included for contrast, they are probably not going to be available in Speeka when its finished since other than MS, they are all port limited - though I have forked out for the audio redistrbution licenses on Loquendo and Cepstral David and a few folk are now testing Speeka with them at the moment. I can't figure out the licensing terms on the audio created via the MS engines.
The audio's ID3 content is constructed from page titles and encoded text content, artist and album tags can be adjusted via Speeka Settings.
Voices - Detail & Comparison
| Label | Voice | Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Young British Male | Mbrola EN1 | |
| Old British Male | CSTR 'rab' diphone | |
| Scottish/UK Male | CMU 'awb' arctic hts | |
| Scottish/UK Male - Alt | Nitech 'awb' arctic hts | |
| Scottish/US Male | CSTR 'ked' diphone | |
| Thoughtful US Female | CMU 'clb' arctic cg | |
| Thoughtful US Female - Alt | Nitech 'clb' arctic hts | |
| Bored US Female | Mbrola US1 | |
| Curious US Female | CMU 'slt' arctic cg | |
| Curious US Female - Alt | Nitech 'slt' arctic hts | |
| Bored US Male | Mbrola US2 | |
| Smooth US Male | Mbrola US3 | |
| Lazy US Male | CSTR 'kal' diphone | |
| Chilled US/Canadian Male | CMU 'jmk' arctic cg | |
| Chilled US/Canadian Male - Alt | Nitech 'jmk' arctic hts | |
| Narrator US Male | CMU 'rms' arctic cg | |
| Narrator US Male - Alt | Nitech 'rms' arctic hts | |
| Precise US Male | CMU 'bdl' arctic cg | |
| Precise US Male - Alt | Nitech 'bdl' arctic hts | |
| Lancashire Male | eSpeak en-n | |
| Standard English Male | eSpeak en | |
| RP Male | eSpeak en-rp | |
| Brummie Male | eSpeak en-wm | |
| West Indian Male | eSpeak en-wi | |
| Scottish Male | eSpeak en-sc | |
| US Male | eSpeak en-us | |
| Esperanto | eSpeak eo | |
| French | eSpeak fr | |
| German | eSpeak de | |
| Russian | eSpeak ru | |
| Polish | eSpeak pl | |
| Italian | eSpeak it | |
| Spanish | eSpeak es | |
| Latin | eSpeak la | |
| Commercial Voices | ||
| Label | Voice | Preview |
| British Male | Cepstral Lawrence | |
| British Female | Cepstral Millie | |
| US Male | Cepstral David | |
| British Male 2 | Loquendo Simon | |
| British Female 2 | Loquendo Kate | |
| US Male 1 | Microsoft Sam | |
| US Male 2 | Microsoft Mike | |
| US Female | Microsoft Mary | |