This page carries my 'personal' experience (as on ) with the below-mentioned TTS (text-2-speech) softwares/tools. I have tested out these tools with respect to Tamil language alone, as of now. The value of the following tools for educational presentations (and kind) and especially their help for the sight-impaired is immeasurable. Words can't describe their worth for the sight-impaired. For the sight-impaired, any sound is worth gold and they might probably easily get accustomed and understand each and every word, phrase, sentence and paragraph (with any of the softwares listed below). These tools are bound to improve in the future and become more and more perfect. Antonio carraro tigre 2700 for sale. My immense thanks to the authors of all these tools and my humble salutes to the efforts put in by these authors and the people behind ', which SAPI probably is the underlying base for some/many of the available text-2-speech softwares. My comments/notes/observations in this page need not be construed by you as final/accurate. As and when your time/interest permits, please test out the following tools yourselves and form your own set of conclusions. Regarding Azhagi's initiative in Tamil 'Text to Speech', since 2001, please see. Kind regards, love all serve all, www.azhagi.com 1. IISC Demo () Pros: • Sounds quite native and hence more understandable. This is a major advantage which can outweigh the limitations below. • I tried with normal colloquial Tamil and with text-book Tamil. The speech's understandability was 'very good' to 'good'. • Supports 'Kannada' text-2-speech too. Limitations: • Have to access the net every time. • The speech file (in.wav format) has to be downloaded every time. Android Text-To-Speech is a free software application from the Other subcategory, part of the Business category. The app is currently available in English and it. Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile. Read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for Convert Text to Speech. Its developer(s) than a lot of apps by bigger software development teams. Even for 2 paragraphs of Unicode text (around 1400 characters), the file size was around 5Mb. • Interrupts now and then during the speech which makes the understandability look difficult which is otherwise very good. ![]() • Intermixed English words/phrases, if any, are left out without speech conversion. • With literary Tamil, it was quite difficult to understand the speech. Note: Thanks to those who sponsor(ed) this IISC project. Wish-List: I pray those instrumental for this project to release this as a free stand-alone software (without the need to access the net) or even as a DLL plugin so that it can be easily integrated by all existing Tamil softwares, which will be of ultimate benefit, esp. To the sight-impaired. Keeping the sight-impaired in mind, I wish my wish becomes a reality sooner than later. I recently received a letter from a bank manager (mentioning his active involvement in helping out the sight-impaired) who emphasised the urgent need for a software which integrates the task of reading/scanning any Tamil text in any encoding/magazine, converting it to Unicode text (if necessary) and reading it out, all in one shot, so that the need for the sight-impaired to seek others' help is as less as possible. ESpeak () Pros: • It is installable in your computer.
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