https://github.com/rhvoice/rhvoice

a free and open source speech synthesizer for Russian and other languages
https://github.com/rhvoice/rhvoice

android brazilian-portuguese english esperanto georgian hts kyrgyz linux russian speech-synthesis tatar text-to-speech tts ukrainian windows

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a free and open source speech synthesizer for Russian and other languages

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rhvoice/rhvoice
• Owner: RHVoice
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2010-07-28T11:35:44.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-11T03:45:14.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-09T14:23:14.218Z (28 days ago)
• Topics: android, brazilian-portuguese, english, esperanto, georgian, hts, kyrgyz, linux, russian, speech-synthesis, tatar, text-to-speech, tts, ukrainian, windows
• Language: C++
• Homepage: https://rhvoice.org
• Size: 14.3 MB
• Stars: 1,519
• Watchers: 70
• Forks: 230
• Open Issues: 158
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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README

        
# RHVoice

RHVoice is a free and open-source speech synthesizer.

## Features

### Speech synthesis method

RHVoice uses [statistical parametric synthesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#HMM-based_synthesis).

It relies on existing open-source speech technologies (mainly

[HTS](https://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp) and related software).

Voices are built from recordings of natural speech. They have small footprints,

because only statistical models are stored on users' computers. And though the

voices lack the naturalness of the synthesizers which generate speech by

combining segments of the recordings themselves, they are still very

intelligible and resemble the speakers who recorded the source material.

### Supported languages

Initially, RHVoice could speak only Russian. Now it also supports:

* American and Scottish English

* Brazilian Portuguese

* Esperanto

* Georgian

* Ukrainian

* Kyrgyz

* Tatar

* Macedonian

* Albanian

* Polish

In theory, it is possible to implement support for

other languages, if all the necessary resources can be found or

created.

### Synthesis example

If you want to listen to an example of speech synthesis, You can use the TTS

service on [this page](https://data2data.ru/tts/).

### Supported platforms

RHVoice supports the following platforms:

* Windows (prebuilt binaries is available in documentation)

* GNU/Linux (building instructions and packaging status

  can be found in "Compiling instructions" section of documentation.

* Android (can be installed thru

  [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.android/)

  or [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.android)

It is compatible with standard text-to-speech interfaces on these platforms:

SAPI5 on Windows, [Speech Dispatcher](https://devel.freebsoft.org/speechd) on

GNU/Linux and Android's text-to-speech APIs. It can also be used by the

[NVDA screen reader](https://www.nvaccess.org) directly (the driver is provided

by RHVoice itself).

## Documentation

All prebuild binaries packages, main

and legal information and more

are available in three languages:

* [English](doc/en/index.md)

* [Русский](doc/ru/index.md)

* [Українська](doc/ua/index.md)

## Community

### Official

* [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/discussions/)

* [Mailing list](https://groups.io/g/RHVoice-rus) (Russian)

### Unofficial

* IRC channel: `#rhvoice` at [irc.libera.chat](ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697)

* Matrix room: [#rhvoice:libera.chat](https://matrix.to/#/#rhvoice:libera.chat)