Which text-to-speech tool can be used to create natural speech when applied on under-resourced languages?

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Christina E. Valaki

I suggest Natural Reader software. In the meantime, you could check the book Natural Language Processing with Python by Bird, Klein and Loper, 2009, for under-resourced language tips. Good luck!

Nabamita Deb

There is an open source tool , OPEN- MARY( Modular Architecture for Research in Speech Synthesis) which in my opinion fares better than the rest..

Hope that helps !