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Peter
Peter

Reputation: 5121

Optimizing Android built in Text to Speech

I've been using android text to speech and I have it working well, but the voice never sounds as good as I would like it to. I understand its never going to sound "natural" but does anyone have any suggestions or know of any ways to make it sound more human or at least understandable.

I know you can adjust the pitch and rate and language. Are there any other adjustments that can be made? or even a better text to speech API that sounds better?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1791

Answers (2)

pjcard
pjcard

Reputation: 1168

Android text to speech supports multiple voices, the ones installed with your phone will vary depending on the model. One of my Nexus phones had excellent voices, but every (non-nexus) phone since then has had poor ones. You can change the active voice and download more voices in Settings->Language & [varies]->Text-to-speech output. Google's range seems to be limited to poor quality voices at the moment. You can also download paid for voices and/or engines from the likes of Svox, Pico and Ivona.

Upvotes: 0

gregm
gregm

Reputation: 12149

No, you can't improve TTS quality. Even changing the pitch is dangerous. If you set it too low the TTS sounds terrible.

The only way to get a better voice would be to use a service that is not google such as ispeech

Upvotes: 1

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