Hi all,
We have a disabled relative who just loves books being read to him by his siblings and other kids at school, but he want them like literally all the time. The kids get exhausted or he needs them to calm down at difficult times (cooking dinner time!) and we tried online readers and they work a treat! we are looking for a decent Text to Speech program so we can create some specialized book content for him and his family in kids voices - transferring his 20 or so favourite books into playable WAV/mp3's for example so he can play them whenever he likes.
The online options work great but either have character limitations or are a bit pricey but also we are in the country and we don't always have reliable internet, when it is down or even slow, high demand sites like Voxbox and Narakeet just do not work. We really need an offline program.
I've been searching for something simple and downloadable that works locally/offline and allows copy-pasting text i.e. from books and converting to speech. MS word has ReadAloud but the voices are limited and very robot-like and clunky. I thought AI developments would have allowed lots of content creation programs but we're struggling. We are happy to buy good software but it does need to work offline. Maybe the processing power needed to run such AI are too powerful and they just don't exist offline (yet)?
Any assistance is greatly appreciated! Thanks
We have a disabled relative who just loves books being read to him by his siblings and other kids at school, but he want them like literally all the time. The kids get exhausted or he needs them to calm down at difficult times (cooking dinner time!) and we tried online readers and they work a treat! we are looking for a decent Text to Speech program so we can create some specialized book content for him and his family in kids voices - transferring his 20 or so favourite books into playable WAV/mp3's for example so he can play them whenever he likes.
The online options work great but either have character limitations or are a bit pricey but also we are in the country and we don't always have reliable internet, when it is down or even slow, high demand sites like Voxbox and Narakeet just do not work. We really need an offline program.
I've been searching for something simple and downloadable that works locally/offline and allows copy-pasting text i.e. from books and converting to speech. MS word has ReadAloud but the voices are limited and very robot-like and clunky. I thought AI developments would have allowed lots of content creation programs but we're struggling. We are happy to buy good software but it does need to work offline. Maybe the processing power needed to run such AI are too powerful and they just don't exist offline (yet)?
Any assistance is greatly appreciated! Thanks
