The engine comes with Lexicon Manager, a dictionary editor that allows you to change the pronunciation of words both alphabetically and phonetically.įor example, with the help of KooBAudio, mp3book2005 and this voice engine, a 4 hour novel can be voiced and converted to mp3 in 10 minutesĪcapela Alyona - works well with such programs as: KooBAudio 0.7.0.7, mp3book2005, Balabolka, Cool Reader. To use TTS, you need a synthesis program (TextAloud, Cool Reader, Balabolka, etc.), which replaces the interface, allowing you to work with TTS, change its settings, sound and speech timbre, and control other features.Īcapela, the developers of the popular Russian-language voice module Nikolay, have released a new Russian, female voice engine, which was called Alena, works on SAPI-5 with a frequency of 22 kHz, Alena is far ahead of Nikolay in the quality of the synthesized speech, the timbre of voice and intonation, according to users, is more pleasant than at the Katerina engine from ScanSoft RealSpeak. Text-to-speech engines do not have built-in controls and it takes more than one TTS to make your computer speak.
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Information: Text-to-speech (TTS) engine or speech synthesis engines - programs similar to drivers designed to convert and synthesize text into a sound wave.
It is much more difficult to make a speech synthesizer for unlimited text of any subject area. An example of such a synthesis (called macrosynthesis) is provided by the train traffic warning systems used at stations in large cities in Russia. For a narrow area, the sound quality can be reduced to the most natural by compiling pre-recorded long speech fragments related to this area. Synthesis technology can be in demand both in a narrow subject area, and in a wide, or unlimited one. In order for the synthesized speech to sound natural, it is necessary to solve a whole range of tasks related to both ensuring the naturalness of the voice at the timbre level, smooth sounding and intonation, and the correct placement of stresses, deciphering abbreviations, numbers, abbreviations and special characters. Automatic speech synthesis- the process of generating a speech signal - a technology that makes it possible to read a text (document, letter, sms) in a voice close to natural.