Where/how to Add real-like voice audio

[beccaclmt38]

Hi I am currently learning European Portuguese and I can’t stand the speech audio for texts without audios. The self generated audios that lingq creates. Is there an outside source to record like real voice audios?

I am trying to take Kindle books and physical books and add audio so I can learn the vocabulary within the books.

Maybe I have to slow down the audio and listen so I like it.
Thanks for any suggestions.

[roosterburton]

@beccaclmt38

Is there an outside source to record like real voice audios?

Some alternates to LingQ’s generated audio would be

Microsoft Edge voices (2 Voices)

Microsoft Edge Guide

• Using Microsoft Edge browser (Free)
  
  
• Via Azure (Paid)
• Self Hosted edge TTS github

ElevenLabs (High Quality - unsure of distinction between Brazilian/European)

VoiceRSS - Lower quality but another option.

[vet8t6z79pc4]

New high quality computer voices for languages

I recommend checking OpenAI’s speech synthesis engine. Pricing is reasonable and the sound quality is also nice. https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech These are the supported languages. Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithua…

[rebeccacooper]

Hi I currenlty am on macbook and apple devices. Is there anything out there that would allow me to add whole PDF’s or photos to create text to speech.
thanks

[lexaznaurov]

Use application ElevenLabs - its free on Tablets and Phones. you can download PDF with a text layer