Looking for a human sounding text to speech thingamajig

[Shamanix]

Does one exist or can I use Fruitys Speech Synth for the rest of my life ?

[[ Lex ]]

AT&T kind of cool and almost realistic

[nool]

http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... /sayit.htm
http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html
windows xp has that kind of application - control panel -> speech
http://www.xoxos.net/vsti.html
http://www.zophar.net/Files/usass1.3b.zip (cut and paste the url)
http://www.nextup.com/ (commercial)
http://www.highcriteria.com/ (commercial)
http://www.1337haxorz.de/products.html#v2
http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/say/
http://www.rhetorical.com/cgi-bin/demo.cgi

[lo3q]

IBM also have a TTS engine online

http://www.research.ibm.com/tts/coredemo.shtml

I think ATT's is the best I've heard

[djguido]

I believe Vocaloid from yamaha does that better than anything....but I could be wrong since I don't actually have one.

[JackDark]

http://www.oddcast.com/sitepal/

If you can deal with the talking heads, you can get some great results!

[Ja.x]

http://readplease.com/

[Mutant]

http://www.scansoft.com/realspeak/solo/

[Sepheritoh]

Do you want speach or singing?

For singing Virtual singer is pretty cheap ($40 including melody assistant)
http://www.myriad-online.com/en/product ... singer.htm

Vocaloid is the best I have heard demos of but it cost lots.

[Shamanix]

I definetly don't want singing !
I need a good speechsynth, mostly to make all those intellectual mind expanding terrence mckenne like samples that are overused in goatrance
But fruity sounds way to robotic for this (although I think a few artists used it anyway like Artifact, and The Nommos, etc)

[JackDark]

Okay well here's the best in the universe for that purpose:

http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html

However, it's not the easiest prog to set up and use. If you have the patience, it has the solution.