How to choose a service

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