Today there is a wide variety of programs, applications and web pages that are usually used to translate or place voiceovers on videos, this time we will be talking about one of these applications such as eSpeak.
What is eSpeak?
It is a voice synthesizer program that allows you to convert text to speech using the method known as formant synthesis. It has a large number of files that allow the use of many languages and best of all, they are relatively small files, however, this is what makes the voices not sound as real as in other programs.
How does eSpeak work?
This program offers us the alternative of being able to make use of a lightweight software capable of converting texts to audio records in different languages and with different tones, since within the program there is an option in charge of making said changes.
eSpeak voices
It has a wide variety of tones which can be modified depending on the taste and choice of the user, among these we have variety in languages such as Catalan, Spanish, English, Portuguese, among many others.
This allows easy translation when converting texts from different languages to make a video or audio record.
How much does the eSpeak app cost?
This program uses open source software, which allows it to be totally free, allowing the user to use it online or download it to the PC. Its small amount of used storage space is a privilege for those who do not have computers with large memories.
eSpeak Options
- This program supports HTML and SSML.
- Allows you to record speech as a WAV sound record.
- It has a wide range of alterable voices.
- It has various tools available for the production and development of some phoneme data.
- It has a wide variety of languages.
- It allows converting texts into phonemes with specifications of height and length.
- It translates texts into codes, thus allowing their easy adaptation for synthesis engines.
- This program occupies approximately 1.4 MB counting all the audio records that it includes.
Alternatives to eSpeak
This is a commonly used program due to its wide range of tones and languages in its different synthetic voices, however, there are alternatives that offer the user the same characteristics and that are usually more used online.
- Acapela TTS commonly provides text-to-speech solutions in more than 25 languages.
- Speakonia is a text-to-speech program commonly used by Microsoft.
- Natural Reader has free and paid services, which draws the attention of users more easily.
- Wideo free text to speech software frequently used for creating animated videos with a loquendo included.
- TTS Tool is a website known for giving Alexa and Waze software a voice.
- Free TTS commonly used in Google technology.
- TextAloud is a software that is commonly used in Windows voice texts.
- Loquendo is an application capable of translating and converting text to speech with synthetic voices and in various languages.
- Balabolka allows you to store records in WMA, OGG, MP4, MP3, or WAV format.