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#1 ArcticMoon

Hello!
Has anyone ever learned Swedish here, or is a native speaker?
What TTS do you guys use? As far as I see, eSpeak is horrible at pronunciation, but actually I might be wrong.
The story of why I suddenly need this is strange, thanks to the hungarian system of university I have to choose a foreign language to finish my polish course and well, Swedish had some places left and the language itself is very interesting.



"As I watch this generation try to rewrite history, one thing I'm sure of is that it will be misspelled and have no punctuation."
2025-05-31 23:00

#2 blazy-enterprises

acapela is the best for swedish tts, or realspeak


listen to Manfred Man's earth band and elvis costello and grow some balls
2025-06-03 19:06

#3 ArcticMoon

Are you saying this as a swedish native, or just a TTS fan? Just because Acapela keeps garbling on each swedish word.



"As I watch this generation try to rewrite history, one thing I'm sure of is that it will be misspelled and have no punctuation."
2025-06-08 23:32

#4 blazy-enterprises

acapela was made in swedan, so no, it sounds as it should


listen to Manfred Man's earth band and elvis costello and grow some balls
2025-06-15 20:05

#5 ArcticMoon

XD the hungarian RHVoice was made in Hungary as well but it has a lot of mistakes. I have even participated in the project but I know it has issues.



"As I watch this generation try to rewrite history, one thing I'm sure of is that it will be misspelled and have no punctuation."
2025-06-16 16:36

#6 ferre

As far as I know, eloquence had swedish but I'm not sure.


The end
2025-07-01 16:26

#7 thespyde

There is Swedish in it but it's missing an element that may have been there before but not now for some reason.


Charles Wells
2025-07-01 21:13

#8 axelsUniverse

So does Espeak, though I'm not so sure whether it's any good or not, I haven't tested it out my self sinse I don't even speak the language.


Signed, AO
2025-07-03 01:33

#9 ArcticMoon

No, it does not
-- (ferre):
As far as I know, eloquence had swedish but I'm not sure.

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"As I watch this generation try to rewrite history, one thing I'm sure of is that it will be misspelled and have no punctuation."
2025-07-04 20:51

#10 EugeniuszPompiusz

Swedish Vocalizer voices are widely available and more than enough.

If you are lucky enough and are able to get them, The Ivona Swedish was also more than good yet nice sounding.
On the I/Mac side of the world Siri voice has no disturbing issues, Google TTS Was OK but I haven't deeply tested it in swedish.


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2025-07-05 21:34

#11 ArcticMoon

Except for the fact that they are buggy, unfortunatelly. And it's really sad because they would be good, if they didn't have so many fuckups.

-- (EugeniuszPompiusz):
Swedish Vocalizer voices are widely available and more than enough.

If you are lucky enough and are able to get them, The Ivona Swedish was also more than good yet nice sounding.
On the I/Mac side of the world Siri voice has no disturbing issues, Google TTS Was OK but I haven't deeply tested it in swedish.

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"As I watch this generation try to rewrite history, one thing I'm sure of is that it will be misspelled and have no punctuation."
2025-07-05 22:28

#12 Mckensie

I'm not a speaker, but you can, use Microsoft Mattias. That is a Natural voice that Microsoft will probably add in later versions of Windows 11. I'm saying this because they're starting to bring Microsoft Azure voices to windows.



2025-07-17 23:49