Topic: Best Text-to-Speech program

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I have no fucking clue where this is classifies under but in a nutshell I am looking for a text-to-speech program that sounds human enough to keep the mood on while pasting the texts from games like Trials of Tainted Space or Corruption of Champions. Anyone have any good canidates? I'd prefer free softwares primarily and software with trials/subscriptions secondary. Thank you for your time and patience to gander at my post.

Updated by TawaD

That site looks like a classic marketing research site designed to see if there's enough interest in a product to produce it and to determine the type of people interested.

A little digging brought up a reddit thread:

https://www.notjordanpeterson.com
About:
The technology used to generate audio on this site is a combination of two neural network models that were trained using audio data of Dr. Peterson speaking, along with the transcript of his speech. If you don't know who Jordan Peterson is or what his voice sounds like, you can find links to his podcast, lectures, and YouTube videos on his website.
The first model, developed at Google, is called Tacotron 2. It takes as input the text that you type and produces what is known as an audio spectrogram, which represents the amplitudes of the frequencies in an audio signal at each moment in time. The model is trained on text/spectrogram pairs, where the spectrograms are extracted from the source audio data using a Fourier transform.
The second model, developed at NVIDIA, is called Waveglow. It acts as a vocoder, taking in the spectrogram output of Tacotron 2 and producing a full audio waveform, which is what gets encoded into an audio file you can then listen to. The model is trained on spectrogram/waveform pairs of short segments of speech.
The implementations used to create this site were forked from NVIDIA's public implementations of Waveglow and Tacotron 2.
Disclaimer: This is not my product, I found it originally at https://www.indiehackers.com/post/64881c2c3f?commentId=-LmLVvYCRzkUaneIs2Y9.[/quote]

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randomguy85 said:
Too bad Jordan Peterson himself got upset over this project and that lead to it getting shut down. Some really good and spicy memes came out of that.

They probably made him say "Women want men who are furries and collect Warhammer miniatures"

Updated by anonymous

In a few more years, every public figure's voice will be at risk, it will sound better than Not Jordan Peterson did, and it could be forced to say it "sexily" for your CoC hentai games without voice actors.

Updated by anonymous

I'd assume any online service would eventually ban you when they get around to data mining what you're having them produce. So if you do use Amazon's or Google's service make sure it's on an account not linked to your main accounts.

There are some decent TTS tools, but last I looked (a few years ago) they were a massive pain to install and setup.

I've used espeak long enough to mostly ignore the poor voice quality.

Updated by anonymous

Chaser said:
https://www.voiceforge.com/demo
use the wiseguy and jerkface voices, they are the best.

Omg thank you so much for this!

Edit: Nvm, the website has a limited number of uses it seems ;(

Edit 2: Double NVM, it restarts after a while

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