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Text-to-speech or speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech.

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chrome.tts.speak character limit

I'm using Chrome's tts service in my extension. According to the chrome.tts documentation: The maximum length of the text is 32,768 characters. However, when I pass string that have more than 250 characters the engine will not read all utterance…
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HTML5 Speech Synthesis API voice/languages support

I'm trying to use speech synthesis in html5 to talk messages in Arabic however, it is not working. I run the following script in to check languages supported by chrome and Arabic isn't one of them. window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",…
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Text To Speech using Google Engine in Android

I'm developing a simple application in Android, i have a problem with TextToSpeech. The application must pronounce the letters of the alphabet and numbers using TextToSpeech, but there's a problem, by default devices use PicoTTS I wish they were…
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How to poll available TTS engines for available languages without instantiating each one and wating for init

I need to instantiate a TextToSpeech object and set a given language (which is set programmatically and may vary). I know I can use setLanguage() but that will only work if the language is available in the TTS engine that partictual TextToSpeech…
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Javascript Native Language Text-To-Speech

I'm making a project for school where we'll teach children to calculate for the first time. Unfortunately these children can't read so the task will be spoken to them in there native language, which in this case is Dutch. I've been looking around…
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Why is my Speech Synthesis API voice changing when function run more than 1 time?

I have been using the new Speech Synthesis API in Chrome (33 and above) to make a web based communication aid. I would like the user to be able to change the voice between male and female, which the API allows me to do. However, when the page is…
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web speech api speech synthesis - getting voice list

I'm having a weird issue with the web speech api. I've set up some code to speak a string of text - very rarely, it speaks it in a normal voice ("Alex" from Dictation and Speech Settings in Mac OS X). But usually, it speaks in the voice "Albert".…
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android TextToSpeech: getting the audio time length

I'm working in android using the TextToSpeech class and Have a string with and specific length. I want to calculate the estimated time of this generated text to speech audio (I know that i can get the audio and then get the time length of this…
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How to tell whether a specific TTS engine is checked (enabled)?

This question refers on Android 2.2 only: The following screenshot shows 3 different text-to-speech engines installed: PIco TTS (Android's default as of Froyo 2.2) IVONA Text-to-Speech HQ SVOX Classic TTS In this screenshot, you could see that not…
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Google translate text-to-speech in British

I'm using the (unofficial) Google translate TTS api to retrieve mp3s to support disabled learners to read web pages. It all works fine, however we have an American accent (we're in the UK!). When I use Google translate however, it fetches the mp3…
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Where can I get voices for .net applications using System.Speech in Windows 7?

I'm so confused between the text to speech technologies in Windows. I have a slightly peculiar requirement: I need to output speech from a .net program running in Win 7 using System.Speech assembly. I want a good, robotic sounding voice that doesn't…
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Good free text to speech API for spelling word tutor

I am writting a spelling word application for my son and would like recomendations for good APIs that can be understood when it speaks. I am programming in .Net so something that will interop with that would be handy. Thanks in advance.
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Android TTS (Text-To-Speech) doesn't pronounce single letter correctly

I am trying to implement text to speech technology of Android in my Activity. It is a simple word game and I want the TTS engine to spell a single letter when the user presses some button. For example when the user presses the A button I want to…
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How can I save my android tts output in a wav file?

I have looked almost everywhere trying to find a way to save my android tts output in an audio file. I looked at these posts: How can I save TTS output in an audio file on android? How can I allow the TTS to write files to my app's…
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Adding Accents to Speech Generation

The first part of this question is now its own, here: Analyzing Text for Accents Question: How could accents be added to generated speech? What I've come up with: I do not mean just accent marks, or inflection, or anything singular like that. I mean…
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