Is there any TTS (Text To Speech) engine for Cantonese?

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There's a web site here that can do this (they support a number of Mandarin voices, one of which uses a Cantonese dialect; please also note that the "Taiwanese" voice listed is actually speaking Mandarin rather than the local Taiwanese dialect {which is not the same as Mandarin despite some misunderstanding by many foreigners that it is}):

SitePal - Text to speech
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal

You can enter the following Chinese characters (which are a rough translation of a William Shakespear quotation, which I've also included for your convenience):

溢出的良好轉換壞。
An overflow of good converts to bad.

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ITFan

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

ITFan almost 2 years

I am looking for TTS (Text To Speech) engine for Cantonese.
- Randolf Richardson almost 13 years
  
  Are you interested in Hong Kong Cantonese, or Canton Cantonese? Although these two are mostly similar, there are some key differences (in addition to the accents).
- Apache almost 13 years
  
  Uhm.. anyone care to explain the downvotes?
- ITFan almost 13 years
  
  @Randolf Richardson : They are both OK !
ITFan almost 13 years

It's good but I need a engine to be installed on Windows in order to use it in Lingoes - a dictionary.
Randolf Richardson almost 13 years

Oh, then what you need to mention in your question somewhere is that you "need text-to-speech software that doesn't require constant access to the internet, and is in the form of a self-contained/stand-alone program."
ITFan almost 13 years

Hm... Maybe you're right. It's a package can be installed same as Microsoft Anna voiced in Windows 7.