How to choose a service - AwesomeTTS/awesometts-anki-addon GitHub Wiki
With the vast number of services available in AwesomeTTS, it's hard to choose between all of them. This guide can help you chose one.
[Paid] Top tier TTS services for popular languages
- Your source language is one of the world popular languages, English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, etc.
- You need to generate audio for full sentences.
- You are willing to buy an API key, or willing to experiment with signing up / getting a demo key.
Use Google Cloud Text to Speech or Microsoft Azure Text to Speech, particularly with the WaveNet/Neural voices
[Paid] Pronunciation for single words, for every single language
- Your source language is less well-known and potentially obscure like Farsi
- You only need pronunciation for single words
- You are OK to pay $2/month
Use Forvo Pronunciation Dictionary
[Free] Pronunciation for single words, English only
- You only need pronunciation for single English words
Use Oxford, Cambridge, Collins, Yandex, Youdao
[Free] Pronunciation for full sentences, Asian languages
- For Japanese, Korean, Thai
Try Naver Translate, Oddcast, Youdao