Gnuspeech
Can anyone in the field comment on what is the best offline TTS available today? This project is old, hardly maintained and the samples sound horrible. Festival is... not very good, but 'acceptable'. The MS build-in TTS engines are OK-ish. Dragon has some TTS but hard to use outside the use cases they designed it for it seems, and I'm not sure if they're even using their own TTS engine? Haven't had a chance to try it out myself. Any major ones I'm missing? And just how much better are the online ones, like Google's? Anyone have any quantitative data on that?