Who knows a good free text to speech SW?

Question

I need a free and well functioning text-to-speech tool.

It should be able to save the speech as an audio file, in format of mp3 for example.

Answer 1

Festival is a pretty decent open-source text-to-speech program. I've used it in the past with good results. The latest voice algorithms they have developed are actually quite nice -- noticeably non-human, but not annoyingly non-human.

Answer 2

I've tried FreeTTS / mbrolla . But I wouldn't say it's good. The sound is terrible. But that's probably caused by the free speech modulation library, some commercial should do better.

http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php

Answer 3

I don't know about NaturalReader 10 Free Version but you can see if that is what you want.

http://www.naturalreaders.com/free_version.htm

Answer 4

ReadPlease is a popular choice....

ReadPlease 2003 / ReadPlease Plus 2003 Reads any text you see on your screen - all purpose text-to-speech software.