FINNISH TEXT TO SPEECH ENGINE

[Jnɨɨñɨ]

In Finnish, the main stress is always on the first syllable of the word. Vowels elsewhere than in the first syllable therefore do not receive main stress.

Finnish sentence intonation is generally falling, but the first syllable of the final word of a sentence can nevertheless be pronounced with a rising intonation without the word being given a strong stress.

And when a word needs to be given particularly strong emphasis this is done by means of intonation. Such a word is often moved to the beginning of the sentence.

Even knowing these things, I often find it hard to pronounce long sentences in Finnish, and that's when I wish I had any FINNISH TEXT TO SPEECH ENGINE.

This software called TEXT ALOUD is wonderful, since you can check pronounciation, stress and entonation of words and phrases and even paragraphs. One types anything in a text-box, then all you have to do is pushing a button and then you can listen the spoken version of what you've just typed. It is perfect!

BUT this hasn't worked for me to learn Finnish since I'm missing a good FINNISH TEXT TO SPEECH ENGINE (that is, one of the voices to install which should allow me to listen to written text in Finnish).

Is there any good web-site where one can download any good text-to-speech engine (a finnish voice)?

This page is a good one, but it is the 'online' version and therefore it cannot be used wihout connecting to internet, nor can you save your spoken text as a .mp3 file.

ANY HELP?

Thanks, folks!

[Miumau]

I don't know about any site, but I would say just speak as monotonically as possible (but keeping the stress on the first syllable) and you'll do fine

[Jnɨɨñɨ]

I don't know about any site, but I would say just speak as monotonically as possible (but keeping the stress on the first syllable) and you'll do fine

Thanks anyway.
Furthermore that would be piracy.

[MillMaths]

Etsi tämä!

http://www.mikropuhe.com/live/

[adam0718]

Text Speaker will work for you if you have a Finnish SAPI voice. You can get Text Speaker here: http://www.deskshare.com/text-to-speech-software.aspx. I think Nuance produces a Finnish voice that sounds good.

[Jnɨɨñɨ]

Etsi tämä!

http://www.mikropuhe.com/live/

Kiitos, "Sophie".
Minä estin!
Mutta:

This page is a good one, but it is the 'online' version and therefore it cannot be used wihout connecting to internet, nor can you save your spoken text as a .mp3 file.

Ja tuntuu että molemmat internetsivut ovat yhtä.

[Jnɨɨñɨ]

Text Speaker will work for you if you have a Finnish SAPI voice..

Thanks for your answer, adam718!
THAT is just the problem.
I don't have any finnish Text to Speech Engine (any finnish 'VOICE').
I've been told loquendo has some two voices both male and female ('Mikko' and 'Milla'), but I have not been able to download them, since I can't find any web site where to do it

I've got this sftware 'TEXT ALOUD', which is a text speaker.
Is Nuance like Loquendo or something?

[mariag1211]

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