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Old 03-21-2017, 05:18 PM   #85
Conan46
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Does anyone know of a good Ivona TTS replacement? I understand Amazon will phase it out:

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Amazon Polly will replace the IVONA Speech Cloud Beta service.

New sign-ups to the Speech Cloud Beta are now no longer supported and the service will stop processing requests on June 30th, 2017.
https://www.ivona.com/

Amazon is moving to a paid TTS service called Amazon Polly. Google's TTS is horrid. And Ivona is already gone from the Google Play Store. I need to find a free replacement for Ivona if anyone has any suggestions.
Thanks.
Edit: Haven't found a good replacement for Ivona. But I did find that by digging down into the Android TTS menu I could add more voices. The default voice is about the worst possible, any of the other options are better. I ended up going with the 2nd US female voice, though I may check out the UK voices.
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