{"id":5136,"date":"2019-12-20T22:48:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2020-02-21T21:54:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T19:54:30","slug":"free-runtime-text-to-speech-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/20\/free-runtime-text-to-speech-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"(Free) Runtime Text To Speech Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Needed simple TTS plugin for a small unity windows game that i’m working on.. I know asset store has few, but they seem to rely on Windows Speech platform voices, and one plugin that was completely standalone didnt really have good enough speech quality..

First i tried to use Mozilla-TTS<\/a> (to generate voice files in advance), but it was impossible to get it to compile due to some weird tricks needed. Then found espeak-ng<\/a>, which seems good enough quality and already had dotnet wrapper<\/a> available! I Compiled speak dll with VisualStudio, had few issues with the wrapper, but got them fixed – compare Client.cs with the original. Next issue was DLL kept crashing, fixed it by using DLLManipulator<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unity project:<\/strong>
https:\/\/github.com\/unitycoder\/UnityRuntimeTextToSpeech<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: <\/strong>
See github issues for known issues and ideas to improve this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updates:<\/strong>
Now outputs to AudioSource component, thanks to updates from @autious fork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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