On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Julian Pawlowski <julian@pawlowski.me> wrote:

Hi Cal,

thanks for having a look to the packages.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:

Have a look at Ivona.. I just compared several of the sentences in one of those repo files from the google 16k, to the German man/women on the Ivona TTS, and the Ivona one sounds a LOT better.

I had an eye on Ivona already. The problem is it's not as free as Google or Bing TTS. There is only a 60 days trial and the actual pricing after the beta period is also unclear.

I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, I've just sent them an email asking to clarify.

At least the german voice from Google is IMHO as good as the voice from Ivona (in fact it's even more applicable as it sounds more formal while the Ivona female voice might have a slightly Berlin accent or so).

I'm not a German speaker so I can't comment on the accent - but I'd have to disagree about the quality from Google on the German voice sounding as good as the Ivona one.. there is clear choppyness on the Google voice, where as the Ivona one sounds more clean.

Let's see and keep an eye on what happens with Invona (also now that Amazon has acquired it).

Nice, I didn't realise they got acquired

Cheers,

Julian

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