Open Source text to speech

[viScience]

I recently test drove a number to open source tts software packages.  

The festival online demo is quite good.

http://www.cstr.ed.a...onlinedemo.html

I have also played around with the microsoft tts but to my ear does not sound natural enough.

I was wondering what others have found out there and in particular if anyone has worked with festival

in LabVIEW.

Thanks

[Kurt-P]

Hey sachsm, 

The most information I could find about this subject only uses Microsoft TTS. There is one good forum thread that kind of talks about using Microsoft TTS: 

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Text-To-Speech-TTS-in-LabView-Windows/td-p/406917

I know you're looking other text to speech software but if you find a .dll (as well as how all the functions are mapped) you can probably call it using a call library function node. In case you need it, here is an example: 

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-9069

-KP