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I asked this question on SuperUser, but it's fallen on deaf ears. Hopefully I can get more of an audience here.
I'm looking for a low cost (or Free) solution like ScriptVox only with a better engine. That is, to read in a script and assign characters to voice. I've read the post here but even with those I'd have to concatenate wav files. It's not that I don't love Audacity, but it is time consuming. I am halfway thinking of writing my own, but I'm sure there has to be a solution out there. Any suggestions?
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Just copy past your texts in the text-box and click preview or save as audio button. You are done! Enjoy!
NaturalReader, Speechify, and Amazon Polly have the most lifelike human-sounding voices of all text-to-speech applications. Polly's Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) makes it a leading choice, with Speechify coming in close behind.
For reading on your desktop computer or laptopNaturalReader, self-proclaimed as the most powerful text-to-speech reader, can turn PDFs, web pages, e-books, and even printed material into spoken word. Available for both Mac and PCs, this software can convert and save any text-filled document into an audio file.
I would use Microsoft's Text-to-Speech engine. They have a simple example on how to do exactly what you're looking for:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms717065(v=vs.85).aspx
With that sample code, you can speak some text and have it dumped to a WAV file. From there, if you need to convert to a format such as MP3, you can use FFMPEG.
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