Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid


Festival is described as 'Offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Festival for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, Mac and Web-based apps. The best Festival alternative is RHVoice, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Festival are NaturalReader, eSpeak, TextAloud and Mycroft Mimic.


Natural Reader is a professional text to speech program that converts any written text into spoken words. The paid versions of Natural Reader have many more features.



eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows.


NextUp.com develops Windows text to speech (TTS) software applications like TextAloud that let your computer talk with AT&T Natural Voices. TextAloud can also be in Microsoft Word as a plug-in.

Mimic is a powerful TTS tool. Mimic is low-latency and has a small resource footprint. Its range of high quality voices also set it apart from other open source text-to-speech projects.
Gespeaker is a GTK+ frontend for espeak. It allows to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume, speed and word gap. The text played can also be recorded to WAV file.

Simple TTS Reader is a small utility that reads text from your clipboard using Microsoft Speech API. Whenever you copy any text, the app instantly converts it into spoken words. You have full control over the voice output — simply select your preferred speech engine from those...

Any Text to Voice is a powerful text-to-speech app to read out loud text on PC or phone, and save text to audio files.






Acapela Group, the leading European voice expert leaning upon 25 years of experience, invents text-to- speech solutions to give your content a voice in up to 25 languages. Our speech solutions allow you to turn any written text into natural speech files, using any of the 50 High...




Voice Dream Reader lets you listen to any document and ebook using text-to-speech.




Online Text to Speech by ReadSpeaker. Speech-enable web sites, mobile apps, online documents and forms so that your visitors can listen to your content.
