text-to-speech

I'd like to add text to speech on the iOS, but noticed that NSSpeechSynthesizer seems to be missing from Cocoa-Touch. Are there any third party, commercial or FOSS, libraries that you would recommend? Will Apple reject an app that contains a third party library? I've heard that OpenEars is good, but I don't really know too much about it. As for Apple accepting an app with third-party libraries, it all depends on whether or not the third-party library uses private frameworks or not. I'm sure that information is available on the OpenEars website. Onato How to programmatically use iOS voice

I'm using the Speech Synthesis API on Google Chrome v34.0.1847.131. The API is implemented in Chrome starting in v33. The text-to-speech works for the most part, except when assigning a callback to onend . For instance, the following code: var message = window.SpeechSynthesisUtterance("Hello world!"); message.onend = function(event) { console.log('Finished in ' + event.elapsedTime + ' seconds.'); }; window.speechSynthesis.speak(message); will sometimes call onend and sometimes not call it. The timing appears to be completely off. When it does get called, the printed elapsedTime is always some

I'm looking for a high-quality TTS engine that I can afford (let's say less than 1000$). So far, I've tried flite and festival with default voices. However, while the results are certainly understandable, technical texts are hard to follow. Commercial TTS solutions from Loquendo and Readspeaker sound way better . However, these companies don't seem to be willing to sell their product to mere mortals - I can't find a price on either's homepage. So, what are good TTS solutions for personal use? Purchase it from NextUp.com site: NextUp.com sells the best , most natural-sounding Text to Speech