| Tool
| Languages
| Platform
| Online demo/trial version
| Download required?
| Cost
| Availability of voices
| Adjustable features
|
| The Festvox Project from Carnegie Mellon |
English |
Works with Windows and Mac OS |
Online demo available |
No download required for demo |
Demo is free of charge |
Voices available in American and British English |
Adjustable audio format (wav, sun, aiff, ulaw) |
| Babil from Babel Technologies |
Arabic, Brazilian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US/UK), Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
Works with Windows and Mac OS |
Online demo available (150 characters maximum) |
No download required for demo |
Demo is free of charge |
Voices not available |
No adjustments available |
| rVoice from Rhetorical Systems |
English, German, Greek, Spanish |
Works with Windows and Mac OS |
Online demo available (255 characters maximum) |
No download required for demo |
Demo is free of charge |
Voices available for English |
Output options: streaming or .wav file |
| Elan Tempo from Elan Speech |
French, English (US/UK), Brazilian Portuguese, German, Russian, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Dutch |
Works with Windows and Mac OS |
Online demo available |
No download required for demo |
Demo is free of charge |
Voices available for French, English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Italian |
Pitch and speed can be adjusted |
| General Purpose Voices from Cepstral |
English |
Works with Windows and Mac OS |
Online demo available |
No download required for demo |
Demo is free of charge |
Voices available |
Adjustable pitch, speed, and special effects |
| ReadPlease from Readplease Corporation and AT&T |
English (US/UK),
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese |
Works with Windows |
Online demo available (30 words), as is a freeware download |
No download required for demo |
Free version available |
Voices available (limited in demo) |
Adjustable pitch, speed, and audio format |
| Web Site Speech Plug-in from Speaks for Itself |
English |
Works with Windows and Mac OS (Netscape 4.0 only) |
Online demo available, as is a free download |
Plugin download required for demo |
Free version available |
Voices available |
Adjustable pitch, speed, and other features |
| The MBROLA Project from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons |
English (US/UK),
Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, Canadian French, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Korean, Hebrew, Indonesian, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (European), Romanian, Spanish Mexican, Swedish, Telugu, Turkish |
Works with Windows and Mac OS |
No interactive demo |
Download required--complex, but worth the effort! |
Free download |
Voices available for some languages |
Adjustable pitch and speed |
| FlexVoice from Mindmaker |
English, Hungarian |
Works with Windows and Mac OS |
Online demo available (300 characters) |
No download required for demo |
Demo free of charge |
Voices available |
Adjustable sample rate |
| SpeakThis from Fonix |
English (US/UK) |
Works with Windows and Mac OS |
Online demo available |
No download required for demo |
Demo free of charge; a variety of subscription plans for full product |
Voices available |
No adjustments available |
| Web speech plugin from Archangelis |
French, German, Spanish, Swedish |
Works with Windows and Mac OS |
Online demo available |
No download required for demo |
Demo free of charge |
No voices available |
No adjustments available |
| Festival from IMS |
German |
Works with unix and Windows |
Online demo available |
No download required for demo |
Demo free of charge |
No voices available |
Adjustable audio format (wav, aiff, raw) |
| CyberBuddy by John M. DeFino |
English (US/UK), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish |
Works with Windows |
Demo not available |
Download required |
Freeware |
Voices available |
No adjustments available |
| NeXTeNS from the University of Nijmegen and the University of Tilburg |
Dutch |
Works with Windows and Mac OS |
Online demo available (130 characters) |
No download required for demo |
Demo free of charge |
No voices available |
Adjustable audio format (ulaw, sun, wav, aiff) |
| Digit from Elan Speech |
English (US/UK), French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish |
Works with Windows and Mac OS |
Evaluation version available (15 days) |
Download required |
Evaluation version free of charge; Full version shareware |
Voices available |
Adjustable speed and pitch |
| VoxWorx from Clarynx |
English |
Works with Windows and Mac OS , needs RealPlayer |
Online demo available |
No download required |
Demo free of charge |
Voices available |
No adjustments available |
| InfoQuick from Sino Voice |
Chinese |
Works with Windows |
Online demo available (50 characters) |
No download required |
Demo free of charge |
No voices available |
No adjustments available |
| DEMOSTHeNES from The University of Athens |
Greek, English (Greek pronunciation) |
Works with Windows and Mac OS |
No online demo available |
Download required |
Download free of charge |
Voices available |
No adjustments available |
| Home Page Reader from IBM |
English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish |
A screen reader for Windows |
No online demo available |
Download required |
3o day trial demo free; price wise we find the full version to be the most feasible tool for instructional purposes |
Male and female voices |
Some voice adjustments available |