Hi,
We have just launched Beta API, for RICH Text to speech conversions.
Need your help / feedback in evaluating and improvising it.
Whats Special:
– Support for India – Hindi language.
– Support for English ( Male / Female ) voices
Demo:
Hindi Demo:
> https://goo.gl/PJ0Pe8 ( Supports UTF8 inputs )
English Male Voice:
> https://goo.gl/mdbbDa
English Female Voice:
> https://goo.gl/5Q1O9G
How to use it:
Dial2verify Text to Speech API is available to be used for FREE.
The free version limits 250 characters per text to speech request.
Syntax:
- Basic Text to speech:
ex. https://tts.mivr.dial2verify.in/?text=Hello World - Adding male voice ( * supported for English )
ex. https://tts.mivr.dial2verify.in/?text=Hello World&voice=M - India – Hindi language TTS:
ex. https://tts.mivr.dial2verify.in/?text=हिंदी मी जारी रखने के लिये, एक दबाइए !&lang=IN-HI - To download the generated text to speech mp3 files, just add &ddl=1 at the end of url
ex. https://tts.mivr.dial2verify.in/?text=Hello World&voice=M&ddl=1
Ref:
https://www.kb.dial2verify.in/questions/56/Better+and+FREE+Text+to+speech+API+for+RICH+voice+prompts
Edit
Simple Hack with Dial2verify TTS API,
Small story telling demo ( * Hindi ):
https://goo.gl/bRpFQs
Hindi Text:
कहानियां अपने युग और परिवेश की पहचान होती हैं। ऐसी कहानियां जो आपको कुछ सोचने को मजबूर करें, जो आपकी अंतरात्मा को झकझोर दें, जो आपको अपने वातावरण के रंग से सराबोर कर दें, ऐसी कहानियां किसे अच्छी नहीं लगती? ये हमारी भावनाओं और दैनिक जीवन का सच्चा इतिहास होती हैं। ऐसा इतिहास जिसमें केवल पात्र और परिचय बदल जाते हैं। यह कहानी चाहे लखनपुर की हो या लंदन की या नासिक की या फिर न्यूयार्क की। वही कहानी सर्वप्रिय है जो आपके दिल को छू जाती है। बोलो जी के कहानी स्तंभ के लिये हिन्दी के सभी पाठकों, लेखकों और पढने लिखने के शौकीन लोगों से मौलिक कहानियां आमंत्रित हैं।
Omkar Nisal
Hey Rahul,
I tried the API and its pretty cool! Little rough around the edges but pretty nice.
What can we use it for and what cant we use it for as of for now?
Rahul Am
Hi,
Nice to know that…Did you try it for Hindi? OR Marathi ? ( If marathi, then yes, we need to workout a lot around it, it supports hindi and english accent quite well )
Thanks for your time 🙂
For better TTS ( Hindi ), then please type words in hindi
ex. https://tts.mivr.dial2verify.in/?text=हिंदी मी जारी रखने के लिये, एक दबाइए !&lang=IN-HI
Rahul Am
There are ample of use cases with voice api,
1. You can build dynamic TTS voice prompts for telephony applications
2. You can introduce voice into web / apps using our TTS API and lot more….like coursewares / news readers / reader apps etc,
Let me know your use case at hello at dial2verify dot in so we can help….
Omkar Nisal
Tried both in Hindi and Marathi.
हिन्दी and मराठी
some pronunciations were kinda funny but its pretty close to be actually usable in IVRS and other production stuff. I am impressed with the work you guys are putting in.
Omkar Nisal
Emailed .
thanks
Omkar Nisal
The file size is pretty small and easily used in applications (online and mobile).
English Male voice is pretty clear (better than English Female Voice), and for a change it said my name correctly … that was for the first time a text to speech engine did so! Kudos!
Rahul Am
HI,
Little suggestion, Introduction of Commas, full stops, Question marks etc affect the pronunciation….and hence must be used meticulously….
for ex. In above case,
Instead of
https://tts.mivr.dial2verify.in/?text=यह अच्छी बात है. हाई ना? क्यों? तुम्हारी क्या राय हैं?&lang=IN-HI
Below line would sound better
https://tts.mivr.dial2verify.in/?text=यह अच्छी बात है, है ना? क्यों, तुम्हारी क्या राय हैं?&lang=IN-HI
Sandeep Gupta
Very impressive TTS.
Years back I developed encoding scheme in order to achieve something like this.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/beejnaagri/
Rahul Am
Thanks…and impressed to see your experiment back in 2006 🙂
Pranay Airan
nice and now if you can give me an android SDK i can enable hindi score reading for a cricket app 😉
Rahul Am
Sure, Please drop me a note at hello at dial2verify dot in