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I use Amazon Polly to generate very nice sounding Korean speech from text. I'm very happy with the results, but (there is always a but) while they have a Chinese Mandarin voice, it isn't accessible outside of China. Does anyone know a decent t2s engine which can be used to generate mandarin? Ideally I'd like it to understand SSML.
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An answer to my own question. OpenTTS is very good! It supports markup tags and it installs as a docker instance on your machine.
https://github.com/synesthesiam/opentts
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Whilst not an open/libre solution, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud both have voice options in Mandarin. I can't judge the Mandarin quality, but in other languages their neural/WaveNet options sound really quite good, and they're of course made for using with code.
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Cenwalh wrote:Whilst not an open/libre solution, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud both have voice options in Mandarin. I can't judge the Mandarin quality, but in other languages their neural/WaveNet options sound really quite good, and they're of course made for using with code.
I don't have any objections to paying the azure and Google cost are about equivalent, it was just the hassle of setting up yet another account. The opentts docker image is a 5 minute setup and does all I need. Probably still use Amazon for Korean just because I prefer the voice.
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Awesome TTS in Anki - is just a configuration tool to Azure and Polly, etc ... works well. Free.
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The thing is that I am using it to create my own dialogue like the ones in assimil or teach yourself but tailored to me.
My tailor is rich.
My tailor is rich.
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rdearman wrote:The thing is that I am using it to create my own dialogue like the ones in assimil or teach yourself but tailored to me.
My tailor is rich.
If you create your dialogues (say in Sheets or Excel), then import them into Anki, you can easily create the sound files. Use them in Anki or just grab them from the media folder.
What I'm doing is entering the sentences from Assimil and using those as cards in Anki.
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Someone gave me MS Azure generated Mandarin for an entire Harry Potter book. I can let everyone know what my impressions are, though it probably will be a while.
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