I'd recommend Google.

>>55483287
I prefer having people tell what works well in their experience rather than what google throws at me.

>>55483412
Whatever Google uses for their text-to-speech in Google now is really good. Duolingo's artificial speech does a fairly good job of speaking in the correct accent. I don't know what either of those companies use, but that might be a good jumping off point

If you use OS X (why aren't you) you can just use the "say" command in your terminal

use say -v whisper for the Serial Experiments Lain voice

I use espeak and picotts in my website. shameless spam:
http://nask.co
the female voice is picotts (which is also used in android when the device is disconnected from the internet), the robotic voice is espeak. they suck, t-b-h.
practically all FOSS TTS programs suck, but how much depends on the voices themselves (I use FOSS voices, too, and they suck. there are better voices, but they are closed source)
an alternative FOSS engine is marytts, which is better than what I use, but for a website, it's unreliable crap.
it's a sad state of things.

tl;dr: use proprietary engines/voices. from what I've read, the one that comes integrated with windows is really good. then there is dragon-something and other software.

>>55485125
>>55483490
oh, btw, the GNU say program is open source (it's called gnu-speech) but apparently the data to train it to get the voices isn't.

also, don't quote me, I'm not expert in the topic, far from that. what I'm saying is what I've read and discovered, but I know nothing about how the software works.

>>55483170
Cortana sounds pretty dope but you need to let the botnet into your life in order to use her

>>55483170
The best text to speech is still in moonbase alpha.

>>55483412
I think he means the Google translate one

>>55483170
>>55486605
>https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1323522

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