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Originally Posted by darryl
@Purple Lady. It is, like many things, a matter of personal taste. My choice is Ivona Nicole (Australian accent). When I first used it I had not tried tts for some years, and was vary pleasantly surprised. It had gone, in my opinion, from only marginally useable for listening to a book, to being both useable and comfortable. I can't say that I've shopped around widely for different voices, but of the ones I have heard this is my preference.
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Originally Posted by Conan46
Several of us in this thread like UK Amy. As for books, those whose writers add accents to their characters or made up words like with fantasy books can be difficult to understand and for TTS to read.
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I guess the particular voice doesn't matter for me. If you go to
https://www.ivona.com/ and listen to the different voices they all sound very robotic to me. Maybe it's just the text that is read? There are pauses and inflections that don't sound right. Here's the text they have on the site:
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Hello there, my name is Amy. I am one of the IVONA voices. I will read anything you want. Enter any text here and click Play.
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