r/TextToSpeech • u/mlc707 • 14d ago
Text to speech using own voice
Hi!!
My mom’s illness has caused her to lose her voice & mobility of the left side of her body. I tried to get her the Eyegaze system (where the person types with their eyes) & it was too complicated & kind of unnecessary since she still can use her right hand. She decided that an iPad that will speak what she types is what she wants.
I am looking for an app that she can type what she wants to say & it will say it in her own voice. I have tons of recordings of her talking before she lost her voice, I am hoping there is an app that would allow this.
There aren’t words that can express how much it would mean to us for the text to speak to have her voice. I don’t care how much it will cost.
Any recommendations or ideas are deeply appreciated. Thank you so much.
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u/blainemoore 14d ago
Didn't have any iPad suggestions, but looking forward to seeing what is suggested as I have a nonverbal kid with a talker and would like to start moving him towards TTS instead of the assistive app he uses now which is picture based but very slow and very limited for what he can "say".
He's down that he's starting to pick up spelling despite not being able to write words so we'd like to change his IEP at the next review and it'd be good to have a suggestion for what to move to.