VO Vietnamese Voices

By Thu Huong Dao, 22 December, 2014

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Accessibility Advocacy

Hi all,

Do you have any information if Vietnamese voice for VoiceOver has been developed? Many thanks!

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By Nicholas Shanks on Monday, September 21, 2015 - 20:47

I was not able to find a Vietnamese voice, but here are some third-party voice suppliers for Mac OS X for other languages (besides Apple's voices available via the Dictation & Speech control panel):

http://www.cepstral.com/en/demos
https://www.cereproc.com/products/voices
http://www.assistiveware.com/product/infovox-ivox (sells Acapela voices for the Mac: http://www.acapela-group.com/)

Nuance's Loquendo TTS voices used to be available to Mac software developers wanting to include TTS audio in e.g. games, but it was never made available as a consumer product AFAIK. Their demos are at http://www.nuance.co.uk/for-business/by-solution/customer-service-solutions/solutions-services/inbound-solutions/loquendo-small-business-bundle/tts-demo/

You may also like http://www.convenienceware.com/ghostreader

Lastly, the Festival Linux TTS should run on a Mac though I haven't built recent versions of it.
http://festvox.org/voicedemos.html
this may help: http://linguisticmystic.com/2011/07/15/using-festival-tts-on-os-x/