How can i create TTS voice Packages?
I have a small app converting text to speach, right now i am using microsoft's built in tts packages to do the text to speach, however, i want to get a proffesional voice artist to create a new text to speach voice package. problem being, i do not know how to create that voics package(TTS)
Creating a new voice for a text-to-speech engine is a complex process. It is not just a matter of getting a voice artist to record audio and simply creating a voice from that. There is a lot of work that goes into this (segmenting the audio into phonemes; building the voice data; building the dictionary; getting the prosody and audio joining/synthesizing rules correct).
For a voice engine like the Microsoft Text-to-Speech engine, you are also facing the problem that the voice format is proprietary and so you cannot create new voices in that format. You are also limited by the capabilities of the engine.
Your best bet at the moment is either:
I am looking at using the audio data from librivox.org to generate text-to-speech voices from. This is likely 3-4 years away though, before I have anything close to being functional.