TTS Voice Software?

[jan]

Hi -

I want looking for software to convert a text file into a voice. The best I found, which was not good, was an IBM Watson application that produced so-so files.

What TTS software do wwm people use? Where do you all get the voices (I like sexy UK girl voices myself? Does your software allow you to adjust pronunciation of tricky phrases?

I'd like to write some of my own stuff, but I need some decent TTS voices and sound edition software to get started, so any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

jan

[jan]

I reposted this in the File Making and Hypnosis Techniques forum, where it is more appropriate, I think.

Thanks,

jan

[OxyFemboi]

[ParanoidLord]

I'm kind of interested in knowing what's good these days, since my knowledge of TTS software is a few years out of date. In 2011-2012 or so, the best deal I could find on it was Cepstral's software, but I get the feeling I didn't do enough research back then. I especially want to know if software these days handles rhythm and speech prosody better, since that's always been kind of a problem even if you go to the trouble of sculpting every syllable.