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What is the most natural and pleasant sounding free screen reader? (self.Blind)
submitted by lizzyb187
Hello everyone! I'm looking for an online screenreader or some kind of chrome plug in (not a program to download). I'm hoping there's something that can sound pleasant and natural. Thank you!
rmorabia 2 points 5y ago
Personally, I don't think any of the browser ones (currently) compare to a desktop one. Mozilla just released their text-to-speech engine, so everything that's going to come out of that is going to take a few years. I'd say go with NVDA + Windows voices.
fastfinge 1 points 5y ago
Mozilla released a text to speech engine? Link?
rmorabia 1 points 5y ago
Welp, with Googling I realize mistyped it. I guess I meant a speech recognition/speech to text engine (like Siri, Alexa, and that stuff). Regardless, link here -- https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/29/announcing-the-initial-release-of-mozillas-open-source-speech-recognition-model-and-voice-dataset/
fastfinge 2 points 5y ago
Yeah, I'd heard of there speech to text system. For a minute I thought you meant that they'd done a TTS system and I got all excited! The world could use another open source tts system that isn't based on espeak or festival. I think some day we'll be using something like Google's Tacotron. But that's probably 20 years away.
pazdale 1 points 5y ago
I know this doesn't answer your question but this smart glasses for $1 can read any text to its wearer and it does sound pleasant. Originally this wearable device was developed to help $1 to achieve increased independence. Unlike it's competitors this artificial vision technology also works for people with no vision.
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