From Amharic and Armenian, to Vietnamese and Zulu. We are talking to people around the world about their local need for text-to-speech voices.
We have opened a new page on our website that lists the languages we know about, what we know about them and the needs of their print and speech disabled speakers.
We hope to get funding to progress them all, and if you have any ideas please get in touch: lp at louderpages dot org.
Emails us at that address if you have a new. candidate language. Tell us why it needs a free TTS voice.
I’m request language Indonesia , next update rhvoice yes , thank you
It would be a good idea if voices could be included in South African languages such as Zulu, or Xhosa or Sesotho, there are many blind people who need free voices in their languages that they can read on their screen readers. For now the only voices available in South African languages are the QFrensi voices, but they are too expensive and of very poor quality, and the Microsoft neural voices in Zulu, Thando and Themba. But they can’t be used locally yet
Also some voice in Swahili, so that blind people who speak Swahili can use a voice in their language in the screen reader. The same thing happens here. The only Swahili voices that exist are very bad. The Espeak synthesizer supports Swahili, but as we all know their voices don’t sound good. And recently google text to speech engine also supports Swahili but sometimes the voice can be slow in response.
I’m so excited to see those voices 🙂
Thank you. Well, we recently released a voice for Setswana – Please see the link at the top of the home page. This was funded by the A.T.Scale programme. For isiZulu, please look at the BlindSA.org website: They have a new voice for that languge. We would like to turn our attention to Swahili, but we need some support – as always.