Text-to-speech for a book?

Question

Electronic books

The question was which speech synthesizer to choose. In order to: upload lectures and listen to them; some books or articles; recording voices for presentations, etc.
What do you advise? Which voice is the best? What are the tips?
Thanks in advance for your attention!

Answer 1

IMHO in the Russian-language synthesis everything is rather sad with free developments.
I liked Alyona (SAPI5) the most, but without dictionaries, it's not so hot either.
I'll be glad if I'm wrong.

Answer 2

I myself use Irina's synthesis from microsoft, built into windows, but without a dictionary, of course, he also has problems with accents and the like. I just like a normal voice, without the metal of a robot like many others. But this is about offline votes. If we look online, then there are a lot of voices from Yandex, though only a few are available for free, the rest are on a paid basis, but there seem to be more natural voices and there are fewer problems with stress. The voices are based on neural networks. You can look here:
https://cloud.yandex.ru › services › speechkit

Answer 3

I am making a speech synthesizer through lists based on scratch

, here is the finished code
https://youtu.be/mejjAUO-F1s
here is another option
https://youtu.be/fi4T-25vjQY
I like this sound better